Stand High Vinyl & CDs

Review: French (digi)-dub trio Stand High Patrol share two new cuts on their very own label, helping develop what it means to record a "dub cover". Harking back to Kingston, Jamaica, 1974, this triumphant dub triumvirate home in on a much-loved dub reggae cover, recorded by Lee "Scratch" Perry and national vocal icon Susan Cadogan, of Little Willie John's 'Fever', in turn a cover of Peggy Lee's 1958 hit original. With this record, the interpretive transmission chain is manifold: now Stand High Patrol offer their own cover, a rather measured take, in which bubbly basses and cold, static, unstressed Rhodeses hover above the vocal mix. The instrumental version, '39 -C Dub' is equally frigid but still moving, haunting.