One For The Weekend: Horace Andy

Check out "Feverish" from the Midnight Scorchers follow-up to Horace Andy's Midnight Rocker album for On-U Sound. 

Here's the scoop...

On-U Sound are proud to announce a sequel to the hugely successful Midnight Rocker album. This is the ‘sound system’ take on the original sessions, featuring brand new tracks; radical dancehall re-works with guest toasters; and stripped back instrumental version excursions in deep dub reggae style. 

Horace Andy has remained a much-loved figure in a musical career stretching over 50 years, but in recent times has perhaps been more lauded for his work as a guest vocalist for Massive Attack, and touring a live set built on his rich catalogue of 1970s Jamaican hits. The Midnight Rocker album, carefully assembled by producer Adrian Sherwood with Horace over the course of several years, and released earlier in 2022, put the great singer back front and center as a contemporary artist. Released to rave reviews across the board, including the Guardian putting it top of their albums of the year so far, and lauding it as a “late career masterpiece”, the album is now into its fifth pressing and continues to disappear from the racks at record shops across the globe. 

The Midnight Scorchers album takes the story one step further, with dubplate style re-rubs (including microphone contributions from Lone Ranger and Daddy Freddy); songs that didn’t quite fit into the ‘Rockers’ sequence but are allowed a chance to shine on this new set; and fresh mixes that allow the striking arrangements to take rhythmic flight. In the same way as the music has been re-imagined, so has the artwork, with award-winning animator Ruff Mercy (Gorillaz, Earl Sweatshirt, Thom Yorke) putting a streetstyle graffiti spin on things, also in evidence in his psychedelic and colorful video for first single “Feverish”, a massive new version of one of Horace Andy’s Studio One era classics. 

Horace himself comments: “I loved the artwork from the first time I saw it, brilliant brilliant brilliant. Midnight Scorchers is really nice, it’s different to Midnight Rocker and more of a dub album. I’ll be sitting at home listening and full joying it on my Speaker Box dem!’" Producer Adrian Sherwood adds: “I’m very happy with the way 'Scorchers’ has turned out; for me, it’s the perfect accompaniment to Midnight Rocker. It’s not just a dub album - the new mixes, and the new tracks take it out to the sound system arena.”

An essential second half of the ‘Rockers and Scorchers’ story, the album is a must listen for hardcore reggae fans and open-minded music lovers alike. Check out the video for "Feverish" below.