PHILLIP SMART - Meets The Aggravators at King Tubby's LP country Shylmagoghnar delivers the perfect soundtrack

Shylmagoghnar delivers the perfect soundtrack to that journey

The songs that hew close to this plot talk a lot about reality television and the way the lines of fame have blurred and how we (in the broad sense of the modern world) have become caught up in artifice and disassociated from our rawer emotions

Vanum have crafted an album that builds on the muscular and triumphant nature of previous releases and expands upon it with a sense of mythic grandeur

the band produced three singles and a multitude of demos and TV and radio recordings

The intervening years between the two records have seen the pair take on new instruments and explore new modes of musical expression

PHILLIP SMART - Meets The Aggravators at King Tubby's LP country Shylmagoghnar delivers the perfect soundtrackPhilip Smart was one of the great engineers to learn his trade as understudy to the legendary dub master himself, Osbourne King Tubby Ruddock. Alongside other luminaries such as Prince Jammy and Scientist, Smart would step in at the controls when the demand for King Tubby's studio dubs grew to such an extent that each single was expected to carry a version or dub on the flipside. Smart moved to the United States in the late '70s, and in 1981 he opened