Psalms Of Eli Riddim – Eloy Daron Music

The Psalms Of Eli Riddim comes in heavy with 18 tracks and 16 different voices, so it plays less like a tidy showcase and more like a full-rooted dancehall session with room for veteran fire and newer names to breathe. Eloy Daron Music keeps the pace grounded and serious, with a devotional edge that sits nicely under cuts like Ghost’s “Save Me, ” Cutty Ranks’ rough-edged “Dirty Mind, ” and Wayne Marshall’s “Ghetto Morning Blues, ” while Cherine Anderson and Phil Watkis help keep the energy moving without losing the meditative pull. There’s a nice contrast between the social pressure in “Crisis, ” the uplift of “We Got To Rise, ” and the harder street talk of “Good Jockey” and “Politician, ” which gives the set a proper emotional spread. The final stretch lands on three versions of the “Psalms Of Eli” riddim, and that instrumental coda leaves the production doing its own preaching.