Katchafire - Say What You're Thinking

As I mentioned earlier in a previous post, reggae is huge in New Zealand, with many people knowing the words of a lot of songs of the Jamaican legends like Bob Marley and Jimmy Cliff. Say What You're Thinking from New Zealand outfit Katchafire has some really good gems of songs that are graced with some incredible backing vocals that sound like the purest of choirs. Check out songs like ''This World'' and ''Hold On''. The lyrics in both of those tracks are very poignant in the case of the latter, and also political in the former. The backing vocals are reminiscent of the choirs in the Dave Dobbyn track ''Slice of Heaven'', which is funnily enough backed by Herbs, the New Zealand reggae pioneers. Both Herbs' and Marley's influence is profoundly heard in Katchafire's music. The legend of reggae lives on in Aotearoa.