Every so often Midnite releases a slightly more accessible album and 'Beauty For Ashes', already their seventh collaboration with the I Grade label, definitely fits that category. The music for the album this time wasn't arranged by by Ron Benjamin, but supplied by Zion I Kings, reinforced for the occasion with drummers Style Scott and Squidley Cole and percussion grandmaster Skully Simms. Rather remarkably, for the first time this album also features some guest vocalists (Pressure, Lutan Fyah and Ras Batch), which makes for slightly different dynamics. At the foundation of every Midnite album are of course Vaughn Benjamin's oracling and often almost mystical lyrics and that also applies to 'Beauty For Ashes'. The song on 'Beauty For Ashes' that tickled our imagination most was 'All I's On You', a track about our ever-increasing dependence on devices like iPhones, iPads and iPods, which unfortunately also means we can be monitored around the clock and privacy is slowly becoming an illusion. Midnite is yet again expanding its extensive discography with another gem!