 
Recently Little Roy has been getting a lot of
praise especially since his appearance on the
Jools Holland show back in October where he played
his covers of the Nirvana classics ‘Lithium’
and ‘Heart-Shaped Box’, with even
Noel Gallagher jumping on the Little Roy band
wagon claiming that his latest album is the greatest
thing he has ever heard and it is safe to say
when you get praise from one of the Gallagher
brothers then it has to be special as it is very
rare for positive things to come out of their
mouths.
Little Roy has recently released ‘Battle
For Seattle’ which happens to be an Nirvana
covers album which features 10 tracks but played
in Little Roy’s legendary reggae style,
the first single to be released from the album
is ‘Lithium’ and oddly the reggae
infused cover really works and Little Roy manages
to bring this quite hard hitting depressing sounding
Nirvana song out in full life with a massive ray
of positive sunshine and I am sure it will have
you skanking around your living room in no time.
Overall Little Roy is onto a winner with his cover
of ‘Lithium’ and quite possible with
the whole of his ‘Battle For Seattle’
album as people who have never gave Nirvana the
time of day may well understand that Nirvana have
penned some great songs and Cobain was a genius
when it comes to writing lyrics, whilst hardcore
Nirvana fans will equally be as curious to see
what Little Roy has done with their favourite
songs.
4/5
Review by Trigger
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