The title track delivers a strong lyrical message with disjointed, yet equally bold music to back it up. Taken as individual visions, most of Youth‘s 13 songs succeed in one way or another. Instead they’ve arrived at a plane of shattered glass, a reflection refracted in myriad directions. Youth knows what it wants to be, but Matisyahu and his band Roots Tonic haven’t led it there. ![]() ![]() “Fire of Heaven/Altar of Earth” is what Youth strives to be - a faultless fusion of Matisyahu rapping and singing, preaching and praising: of reggae and hip-hop of studio and stage of young and old of dancefloor liaisons and righteous piety. You can hear the growing pains - the muscles stretching, the bones creaking, the soul in angst as it tests and forges an identity. Plus, Youth just sounds like a sophomore album. ![]() Youth is Matisyahu’s third full-length release, but only his second studio record ( Shake off the Dust…Arise came in 2004) and his second album to receive any sort of attention ( Live at Stubb’s introduced the “Hasidic reggae superstar” to the world).
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