After 'Sound The System' and '2 Times Revolution' (we're not counting his dub releases here), albums that couldn't quite convince us, Alborosie returns with 'Freedom & Fyah', a long player filled with delicious rub-a-dub, he describes as a concept album. Albo comments: "On most of my albums, you might have a roots or rub-a-dub track and then you have a ska, but this time they're all headed in the same direction.". The track list also contains two songs that were already released back in 2015: an "alternate take", as it's called, of 'Rocky Road', and 'Poser', a song about which Alborosie points out: "People always pretend to be good, but behind the scenes they may be doing something bad, so that song is like a judgment, you understand? And I include myself in that, because I don't want to be judging people and saying I'm clean and nice or whatever. No, we're all human and we make mistakes.". In the intro of 'Freedom & Fyah' you'll hear the voice of Reverend Rohan Treleven, who comes close to capturing the spirit of Marcus Garvey's speeches, and 'Everything' is an ode to the early nineteen eighties, when the riddims of Roots Radics still ruled supreme. Pupa Albo's guest list this time includes Ky-Mani Marley, with whom he already collaborated on several occasions in the past, and Protoje ('Strolling' definitely being one of the highlights on 'Freedom & Fyah'), but also two names that may not immediately ring any bells. 'Carry On' is a duet with Sandy Smith, one of Alborosie's regular background singers, and Sugus, who Pupa Albo describes as: "... the female version of Horace Andy", is a veteran singer who, as a backing vocalist, still worked with legends like Dennis Brown and Gregory Isaacs. With her Alborosie recorded both 'Fly 420' and 'Zion Youth', and it's especially that last song, for which Albo recycled part of the lyrics to Buju Banton's 'Untold Stories' and which he describes as: "... a rallying cry for today's Rasta warriors", that could convince us. The Shengen Don is back!