Fimber Bravo

★★★★ Lunar Tredd MOSHI MOSHI. CD/DL/LP

Inspiring follow-up to 2013’s Con-Fusion from the Trinidadian steel pan player.

Current events lend Fimber Bravo’s second solo album a lyrical stridency; his resistance poetry set to a steel pan beat soundtracking the concerns arising from Black Lives Matter. The opener You Can’t Control We rages with a righteous fire and defiant spirit: “They ban our street voice and they choke we/We still shout you can’t control we,” he cries. Caribbean Bluez (In The Shadow Of Windrush) is another strong, reverberating piece. On the spiritual Call My Name, meanwhile, the Trinidadian south Londoner, who first came to prominence with the 20th Century Steel Band, is joined by Senegalese kora player Kadialy Kouyate, the pair spinning a gossamer web over a driving electronic pulse. Other guests include The Horrors’ Tom Furse and Hot Chip’s Alexis Taylor, but throughout it’s Bravo’s own innovation that defines this.