Palance Riddim – Kernal Roberts

Palance fever. Kernal Roberts kept this 2010 soca cut lean and pointed, with just two tracks carrying the whole riddim and all of the attention locked on the energy rather than any excess. Jw And Blaze set the pace with “Palance, ” the same tune that pushed its way through Trinidad’s Carnival season and ended up tied to the 2010 Soca Monarch conversation, while Shal Marshall and Screws come in with “Police, ” a sharper, cheekier counterweight that keeps the project from feeling like a one-note victory lap. Roberts’ production has that hard-driving, road-ready pulse you expect from a tune built for movement, but the arrangement leaves enough space for the vocal hook to do the heavy lifting. In the end, it’s Jw And Blaze’s “Palance” that leaves the bigger mark.