{"id":3172,"date":"2015-03-25T12:49:33","date_gmt":"2015-03-25T16:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/?p=3172"},"modified":"2015-04-01T13:03:41","modified_gmt":"2015-04-01T17:03:41","slug":"the-skints-fm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/the-skints-fm\/","title":{"rendered":"The Skints <br>FM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/the_skints-fm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3173\" src=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/the_skints-fm.jpg\" alt=\"The Skints, FM\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/the_skints-fm.jpg 250w, https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/the_skints-fm-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>With nearly 200,000 immigrants from Jamaica arriving during the mid-20th century, England has long been a hotbed of cultural imports from its one-time colony. (The island gained its independence in 1962.) Chief among those has been music: ska and its more widely known offshoot, reggae. First gaining popularity with the skinheads of the 1960s before influencing punk and post-punk bands and spawning the Two-Tone movement, ska and reggae have become intrinsic in English culture, with new forms sprouting up continually over the subsequent years.<\/p>\n<p>As such, Jamaican music is deeply ingrained in England\u2019s musical heritage, and the idea of a modern English reggae band isn\u2019t some blasphemous equivalent of The Mighty Mighty Bosstones\u2014far from it. Enter The Skints, a London four-piece who recently released their third full-length, <i>FM<\/i> (Easy Star Records). The band combines traditional influences with touches of R&amp;B as well as ska and hip-hop\u2019s modern offspring, grime. The sum of such parts varies between the soulful dub of \u201cIn the Night\u201d to the frantic ska pop of \u201cFriends &amp; Business\u201d to the grimey skank of \u201cEyes in the Back of My Head.\u201d Purists may scoff, but these hybrids represent a purer take on ska and reggae than the modern strains coming out of Jamaica these days. Moreover, the band\u2019s meshing of styles comes off as unforced, and as evidenced by their collaboration with UK dancehall legend Tippa Irie on their superb ode to London, \u201cThis Town,\u201d The Skints are well-versed in their musical roots. With many having tried and failed, putting a modern face on a genre as deeply rooted in tradition as reggae is a tough task, but The Skints have succeeded and firmly established themselves in the process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With nearly 200,000 immigrants from Jamaica arriving during the mid-20th century, England has long been a hotbed of cultural imports from its one-time<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[34,1186,1185],"class_list":["post-3172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-reviews","tag-album-review","tag-easy-star-records","tag-the-skints"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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