Give Thanks Riddim (2021) – Love Star Music

Love Star Music’s Give Thanks Riddim arrived in 2021 as a straight-up reggae juggling anchored by seven vocal cuts and a warm, meditative one-drop pulse. The label behind it is Love Star Music, the New York-based outfit led by Conroy Smith, a Jamaican singer and producer whose work has long moved between roots reggae and dancehall, with earlier projects for acts like Luciano, Richie Spice, and Macka Diamond.

The riddim’s strength is the way it keeps its pace unhurried while giving each singer room to shape a different shade of gratitude, faith, and love. Luciano’s “Jah Door” brings the most immediate spiritual weight, with the kind of devotional phrasing that has made him a standard-bearer in modern roots reggae. Lutan Fyah’s “Love Lies” adds a harder edge, folding relationship tension into his familiar socially conscious delivery. Little Hero’s “Always On My Mind” and Turbulence’s “Our Love” tilt the project toward lovers rock sentiment without losing the riddim’s roots foundation.

Pink Boss’ “Voice Of The Cries” and Sycure’s “Jah Lifted Me” deepen the conscious lane, while Uneek #1’s “Respect Life” closes things with a firm message song. Rather than chasing big sonic drama, the production stays clean and sturdy, letting the bassline, guitar skank, and steady drum pattern carry the mood. It plays like a careful roots set assembled for singers who can hold attention without clutter, and that restraint is what gives the project its lasting pull.