Two decades after his first influential production jobs with Tackhead and the On-Sound crew, the former Clash DJ has finally made a solo album.
Never Trust a Hippy fuses Sherwood's first love, reggae, with global sounds, creating a musical world party where no music, from oriental to classical, is refused admission. His longtime cohorts Keith Leblanc and Skip McDonald push themselves to ensure that there is no sense of revisiting past glories. With occasional vocal and other contributions from Ghetto Priest, SE Rogie and Rizwan Muazzam Qawwali, Sherwood crafts everything into haunting and catchy melodies.
The dubmaster has always operated apart from the pop mainstream, but has never provided such a convincing alternative to its dearth of creativity.
