CHRISTGAU CONSUMER GUIDE

BLACK UHURU “Brutal” (RAS) Junior Reid ululates where Michael Rose sang, but the big loss is more crucial: politics, some rudimentary specificity. Up against the run of ridmic rhetoricians, though they do just fine. Both Reid and Duckie Simpson have a knack for rhetoric, and while Sly & Robbie might have pushed Simpson’s “Reggae With Me” out on the dancefloor where it belongs, this is their most pyrotechnic production yet—they’ve brought Babylon back home.