Caicos Gal Riddim – Island Life Records

Out of the Turks and Caicos-adjacent lane Island Life Records was working in around 2011, Caicos Gal Riddim lands as a tidy seven-track roots set with a little extra space for a dub close. Half Pint opens with “Time Is at Hand, ” and the sequence runs through Junior X, Jimmy Riley, Lutan Fyah, Sizzla, and Natty King before Winston Bopeep Bowen and Crew wrap it up with “Lady Olimatta Dub Version, ” which gives the project a proper coda instead of just fading out. The cuts lean toward conscious, mid-tempo reggae rather than anything flashy, with veteran voices like Jimmy Riley and Half Pint sitting comfortably beside the younger fire of Lutan Fyah and Sizzla. It was released on October 25, 2011, on Island Life Records.