The English Beat "Wha'ppen?" (Expanded) Color:Yellow/Green Translucent - RSD 2024 (/5550) All Mirrors

All Mirrors

Quite possibly the best effort yet from one of the most popular and important bands in heavy music today

retitled "Con Tanto Amor Medley

" The group looked at Mark Lanegan's 1990 album The Winding Sheet for inspiration

Rheostatics) and violinist Hugh Marsh (Bruce Cockburn

The English Beat "Wha'ppen?" (Expanded) Color:Yellow/Green Translucent - RSD 2024 (/5550) All MirrorsThe second of the English Beat's three albums expanded to included 2 sides of non LP tracks and B sides. Wha'ppen reflects the band's signature melange of musical styles and influences, shifting from a heavy reggae ska punk sound to a more eclectic sound that included African, steel drum, and dub influences for a wholly original sound. Social Conscious and politcally oriented lyrics that remain as relevant today as the context of the album's original