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In a blindfold test, this dub collection could pass for a 1970s original, or at least a 1980s Adrian Sherwood<\/a> production-warping of Jamaican experimentations. Instead, the reality is that modern-day producer Prince Fatty<\/a> has versioned London singer Hollie Cook<\/a>\u2019s 2011 debut album<\/a>. Fatty (aka Mike Pelanconi) is not particularly a dub reggae specialist. The form is just one of his many stylistic outlets, which makes the authentic depth of this analogue fetishist\u2019s immersion all the more impressive.<\/p>\n Hollie is the daughter of Sex Pistols<\/a> drummer Paul Cook, continuing the old connections between punk and dub. She was even part of the recent line-up of The Slits. Cook\u2019s vocals bring another element, though. The sweetness of her voice calls up Lovers Rock comparisons, or maybe a feminine continuation of Horace Andy<\/a>\u2019s style. Other precedents could be Neneh Cherry<\/a> or Nicolette<\/a>.<\/p>\n It\u2019s unusual to have a singer so upfront and constant in a dub production. Customarily, a vocal fragment will rear up and then submerge, to be replaced by sheer space, or spurts of bass, drum or keyboard echoes. The shivery ghost-keys, infinity guitar and bass molasses are present here, of course, with Crying Dub being particularly low-slung, loaded with swampy vocals, clipped keys and a seductive tenor saxophone solo. <\/p>\n For Me You Are Dub involves a radical dispersion of matter: dub as narrative, its phases shifting briskly, within three minutes. It\u2019s another inspirational three minutes when The Shangri-Las<\/a> are indirectly subjected to dub methods on Walking in the Sand. It\u2019s the freshness of youth versus old-school ocean-floor plummeting.<\/p>\n Cook invests this uncompromising dub soundscape with her pop-attuned approachability. The album\u2019s thundering wobble certainly can\u2019t be deemed a result of any flabbiness. Such sonic extremity is normally out on the perimeter, but Cook gives the experimentation a specific emotional depth charge.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n