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Bursting with energy and running at lightning speed, despite a few changes in lineup, the Toasters have emerged today as leaders in the huge international underground ska scene. Founder and Moon Ska label owner Rob "Bucket" Hingley has assumed more lead-vocal chores since this '87 recording, and the loss of the Unity 2 duo, Sean and Lionel, who left to record their own discs. But Sean and Lionel are all over Skaboom, and this debut set owes much of its frenetic appeal to Hingley's songwriting, revved several notches higher by Unity 2's vocal charisma. Another bonus: the presence of the four-track Recriminations EP produced by legendary punkster Joe Jackson. With this album, the Toasters were the first to pick up where the U.K.'s two-tone bands had left off, substituting their own reflections of a roiling mid-'80s East Village, New York, energy for the social turmoil of the '70s-era U.K. that fueled that earlier era's ska sound. --Elena Oumano + Read more.... |  |
