专辑名称：Tend the Fire
歌手名称：The Mercurials
发行时间：2025-03-28
发行公司：Kwaidan
They are in their thirties, meaning they are "too much too young" to have felt the vibrations of the ska revival of the late 1970s and early 1980s live, when The Specials, The Selecter, Madness and the likes of The Beat were electrifying England at a time when social tensions were running high and were getting brass missiles into the charts, hitting all of Europe. Far too young, it goes without saying, to have experienced the initial shakes of the music that would fuel all that was to come: 1960s Jamaican ska and it's later evolutions, bluebeat or rocksteady, from which reggae drew it's essence and fever. They are neither from Kingston nor Brixton, but from Montreuil, Paris suburbs, where you can just about see the twin towers "Les Mercuriales" on the horizon, making their anglicized name an allusion to their dual identity, a French heart with a British soul, with a side of the Caribbean. Their suit-and-tie rude-boys (and girl) look, their perfect mastery of the vocabulary and science of the pioneers of old - and older - in the studio show just that. The Mercurials are proudly raising the torch they have taken up and have something to tell you: this music is as alive, as vibrant and as invigorating as in the early days. In 1980, The Specials were singing "enjoy yourself", 45 years later, the invitation still stands and what a joy it is!.
01. For the Kids
02. Send Some Flowers
03. Sweet Baby Boy
04. In the Club
05. Fire in the House
06. Omnia Sunt Communia
07. Stuck in the Middle
08. Lonely Boy
09. (I Don't Wanna) Talk About Politics
10. Two Sides of Me
11. What Is Wrong with Me?