| New York Fever | ||||
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| Released | 1992 | |||
| Genre | Ska [1] | |||
| Length | 45:10 | |||
| Label | Moon [2] | |||
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New York Fever is an album by the American band the Toasters, released in 1992. [3] [4] [5] The band supported the album with a North American tour. [6]
The album was mixed by Joe Jackson, under the alias "Stanley Turpentine". [7] [1]
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [8] |
Trouser Press wrote that the album "gets off to a tremendous start with the tight, energetic title track and the swaggering groove and social commentary of 'Ploughshares into Guns' ... After that one-two punch, though, tight musicianship takes the place of solid songwriting." [9] The Kitchener-Waterloo Record opined that "the production on this album is superb, with the bass runs punctuating rather than rolling." [10] The Arizona Daily Star called the album "funny, fun and insightful," writing that it "incorporates elements of funk, township jive, calypso and dance-hall music." [11]
AllMusic noted that "the songwriting could be a bit more polished and melodic in places instead of relying on the group's admittedly fine instrumental work." [8]
Ska is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s and was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae. It combined elements of Caribbean mento and calypso with American jazz and rhythm and blues. Ska is characterized by a walking bass line accented with rhythms on the off beat. It was developed in Jamaica in the 1960s when Stranger Cole, Prince Buster, Clement "Coxsone" Dodd, and Duke Reid formed sound systems to play American rhythm and blues and then began recording their own songs. In the early 1960s, ska was the dominant music genre of Jamaica and was popular with British mods and with many skinheads.
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