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Black Uhuru: Black Sounds Of Freedom The Wailing Souls: Firehouse Rock Toyan: How the West Was Won

Vivien Goldman, New Musical Express, 29 August 1981

THE Greensleeves label, tucked under the concrete arm of the motorway at Hammersmith Roundabout, seems to still be carrying the swing – chart-wise too, now that General Saint and Clint Eastwood are piped out in our daily radio round with 'Another One Bites The Dust'. Owing to the vanishing acts on the part of certain NME writers who normally corral reggae releases, for good or ill, here's a round-up of some of the recent, though not new, LPs.

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