Sons Of Kemet – Your Queen Is A Reptile (Vinyl) Anton newcombe It opens with “I Wish

It opens with “I Wish We Could Turn Back the Clock Like It’s 1978

at the start of a new decade

Also commendable is the Gurus' sharp wit -- from the hillbilly freakout of "Hayride to Hell" to the primitive B-movie stomp of the title track

Karen Dalton’s 1971 album

Flesh without Blood

Sons Of Kemet – Your Queen Is A Reptile (Vinyl) Anton newcombe It opens with “I WishGod save the Queen she aint no human being! Johnny Rotten once sneered, but for British Barbadian reedsman Shabaka Hutchings, he has the guile to go with the poesy in echoing the sentiment 40 years later. In Hutchings, the emergent British jazz scene has its firebrand and potential superstar and naming his breakout album Your Queen is a Reptile is as intrepid (and yes, punk as fuck) a title to give a jazz album in 2018, especially one that announces