With loud drum rolls, horn blasts and the catchy slogan: "The hottest thing to come out of Sicily since Mount Etna", the Greensleeves label recently signed Pupa Albo and he now serves us his new opus 'Escape From Babylon'. Fans of Albrosie's more dancehall-orientated tracks will be slightly disappointed because for this album Alborosie dove even further in the annals of Jamaican music history than for his debut effort 'Soul Pirate'. What is immediately obvious is that 'Escape From Babylon' contains a lot more references to Alborosie's home country Italy: there's 'Mr. President', in which he criticizes the corrupt regime of Silvio Berlusconi aka Mr. Macaroni and 'Mama She Don't Like You' is a song full of references to a number of Italian clichés like Ferrari or pasta. For those who noticed a cunning similarity between the sleeve design of 'Escape From Babylon' and Sizzla's 'Ghetto Youth-Ology', we can add both designs are from the hand of master Tony McDermott. Once again Albo steals and borrows wherever he can (a few Bob Marley lyrics for 'America', Horace Andy's voice for the refrain of 'Money' and 'I Rusalem', which is as good as a carbon copy of Alpha Blondy's 'Jerusalem'), but he does it with such a flair that yours truly would rather call it a tribute than a rip-off!