10 ft. Ganja Plant - Hillside Airstrip

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My favorite current reggae band. Ganja Plant is the secret side project of John Brown's Body, who are strangely not nearly as good? This is not a stoner album, nor a stoner band. There are limited weed references. It's just great roots reggae.

There's two unique things about Ganja Plant that make them the best. First, they rock the base like no other reggae band. It's a secret who the bassist is, my theory is they switch off, but it is excellent. The base guitar is the key to good reggae. The other is their recording technique to insure that it has that old sound where they record each song with all the instruments playing together in one take instead of laying down each instrument at a time.

Pure Sugar is the center piece very funky vibe to it. There's the awesome instrumental title track, which they literally school every other current reggae band on how to create amazing and authentic sounding roots reggae They even treat us to a sick dub track Two Bulls which is heady beyond belief.

The overall sound and vibe is dark, not depressing but like.. nighttime. Especially Pure Sugar. Personally the cover gives a good prelude to what to expect the sound to be like. Very laid back, like the man with the spliff who sits and waits in the middle of the night on the airstrip on the hillside for the planes that smuggle the ganja around the island.

If you're a reggae fan, you need this.