Pitchfork Features Hugh Mundell
Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible. They have revisited the impressive 1978 debut of a teenage star, a radical piece of roots reggae defined by its innocence and the tragedy that followed. In a 1976 story for The New York Times titled “Fear in Paradise,” reporter Stephen Davis went down to Jamaica to contextualize why and how the country was on the brink. At the time, Jamaica was an ever-flowing source of folklore, fanfare, and fundamental misreadings of its sociopolitical reality.
