I can't with good conscience give this the 8 (A-) I think it deserves. Because all six tracks are "variations on the same few melodies," to quote a prominent critic, it strikes me on a pure listening level as a 7.5 (high B+), in which case it would be # [calypso/soca] for me. But I chalk this up to me just not having the ears for calypso/soca and am resolving the internal conflict by declining to officially grade it, like I do with early jazz, as one other example, and skipping it. If you like the genre, people with much better ears and more sophisticated taste than mine would definitely tell you to go for this. Beautiful used copies are readily available for fair prices as of today, which is also not necessarily a good sign but obviously makes it very tempting.
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