Dub Inc. steps ahead with “Atlas, their ninth studio album, “showcasing” how a band with greater than twenty years within the recreation can evolve with out dropping its basis. Alongside the discharge, the group additionally drops the brand new video for Break The Silence that includes Kabaka Pyramid, a standout collaboration that brings the album’s message into sharp focus. The Saint-Étienne collective stays true to its socially conscious voice, however the brand new venture opens contemporary doorways. Throughout twelve tracks, the group strikes from reggae into touches of cumbia, oriental colors, rock vitality, digital textures, and stripped-back acoustic moments. It looks like a band exploring with out drifting away from the core that constructed their viewers.
Atlas additionally carries the acquainted Dub Inc message. Bouchkour and Komlan deal with unity, hope and the accountability all of us share in a world that retains shifting. The album options contributions from Marcus Gad, longtime collaborators like Alaoua Idir and Antony Gatt a and this one with Kabaka Pyranmid.
After a cancelled tour and a interval of re-centering of their new Greenlab studio, the band used the time to rethink their course of. The result’s music performed by actual arms in a digital period that usually loses that contact. With renewed vitality and a full tour forward, Atlas stands as a vivid chapter in Dub Inc’s journey.