Dub blues evokes phantom-slave continuities rather than merely nostalgic sound

Evidence

The combination of skin-tingling voices (some original, some sampled) with dub space and drift is deeply addictive. Little Axe’s world is entrancing, vivid, often harrowing; it’s easy to get lost in these thickets and fogs, these phantom plantations built on casual cruelty, these makeshift churches that nurtured collective dreams of escape… — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life, 297

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Musical origins themselves harbor ghosts, undoing authenticity claims — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on…, 302; Little Axe songs are accreted palimpsests rather than authored works — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on…, 303; Dub’s emptying-out produces flatness unless voices under erasure remain present — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on…, 214 (+1 more)