Daily Reggae Album Review: The Movement’s unique style of reggae rock shines in “Always With Me”
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The Movement is such an incredible band! Hailing from Columbia, South Carolina, they’ve been steadily creating positive music since 2003, and it’s been inspiring seeing the band’s growth over the years. The band’s new album, “Always With Me” is their best work yet and showcases The Movement’s unique style of reggae rock. “Always With Me” spotlights The Movement’s creativity and drives home so many inspirational messages.
In “Afraid” singer Joshua Swain encourages us to not be afraid anymore and to tackle our obstacles head on. The song features such a cool dub vibe with a thumping bass and drum tempo. Swain absolutely destroys his vocals and delivery as he does throughout the entire record.
The album has some awesome features and we love the teaming of The Movement with Slightly Stoopid in “Sounds Of Summer”. The song has a laid back vibe that has us thinking about a beach day playing in the waves with the sun on our back. It’s one of our favorite reggae summer jams! Definitely turn this one up at your next party to spread good vibes!
We have to give major props to The Movement’s horn section, who recorded such catchy grooves. They absolutely crush it in “Elephant”, which is an excellent pump up song! We’d love to catch this at one of the band’s concerts.
A band’s ability to change up pace in a song is super important, because it keeps the listener engaged and can bring different emotions to a song. The Movement is especially good at changing tempos mid song and Swain’s ability to carry a hook with his passionate vocals while mixing it up in the verse is so cool. “No Worry” is one of our favorites on the album and The Movement expertly mix their tempos in this gorgeous song.
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“On & On” by The Movement featuring Iration is the Daily Reggae Song of the Day.
