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In April 2021, We Are The Union announced a new album, Ordinary Life, to be released on June 4, 2021, via Bad Time Records. [21] Along with the album announcement, lead vocalist Reade Wolcott came out as a trans woman, with much of the album exploring topics surrounding her transition. [22]
For lists of 2021 albums, see: List of 2021 albums (January–June) List of 2021 albums (July–December) This page was last edited on 8 May 2023, at 20:39 ...
Pitchfork ' s Brad Shoup wrote that, "for longtime fans of [ska], though, each 'hup' and 'pick it up' is truly affecting", and said the album had "ample artistic merit". [13] Anthony Fantano of The Needle Drop ranked the album 10th in his top 50 albums of 2021, saying the songs of No Dream "sound even better as ska versions".
Ska (/ s k ɑː /; Jamaican Creole: skia, ) is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s and was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae. [1] It combined elements of Caribbean mento and calypso with American jazz and rhythm and blues. Ska is characterized by a walking bass line accented with rhythms on the off beat.
When God Was Great is the eleventh and final studio album by the Boston ska punk band the Mighty Mighty Bosstones. [2] [3] It was released in 2021 on Hellcat, the band's only album with the label. The album was co-produced by Hellcat founder and Rancid member Tim Armstrong. [4]
The album was well-received: BrooklynVegan and Punknews.org included the album in Best of 2022 lists, [27] [28] Pitchfork's Nina Corcoran called it "a modern classic in the ska-punk canon", [29] and music critic Anthony Fantano awarded the album an 8/10 score [7] and included it on his 2022 "Loved List". [30]
BrooklynVegan included the album in their 2021 list "64 Essential Ska Albums from 1964 to Present". [5] Originally released on the band's own label Pass The Virgin, it saw wider release after being licensed by Moon Ska Records for national distribution [ 4 ] starting in 1995.
The Slackers are an American ska band, formed in Manhattan, New York in 1991.The band's sound is a mix of ska, rocksteady, reggae, dub, soul, garage rock, and jazz.The Slackers' notability is credited to their prolific career, tours of North and South America, Europe, and elsewhere, and signing to notable punk label Hellcat Records.