X-O-DUS - English Black Boys cs African Queen (Pour la Grace)

African Queen (Pour la Grace)

An album of subtle but powerful beauty

and far closer to Marinetti's radical conception of free words (parole in liberta) than Pratella's fuzzy theorising

Willingham nevertheless brings a distinctive Athenian warmth to his Captain’s Table

and still stunningly beautiful and affecting

X-O-DUS - English Black Boys cs African Queen (Pour la Grace)LTM presents the first CD by Manchester reggae band X O Dus, best known for their Dennis Bovell produced single English Black Boys on Factory Records in February 1980. Formed by Moss Side teenagers Honey and Leddy Ricketts in the late 1970s, X O Dus elected to play a more political progressive style of reggae, free from the religious dogma typical of other reggae bands at the time. Talent spotted by Joy Division New Order manager Rob Gretton, the