Announcing his first album in 2016, New Zealander Troy Kingi confirmed it was the first in a project entitled 10/10/10: ten albums in ten different genres in ten years, followed by retirement. Remarkably, he's still on track. Highlights include Shake That Skinny Ass All The Way To Zygertron (psychedelic soul), Holy Colony Burning Acres (roots reggae) and the brilliant Black Sea Golden Ladder (a folk singer-songwriter hybrid made with another Kiwi, Delaney Davidson).
The albums are soulful and blur into each other quite nicely – genre boundaries aren't entirely respected – but album number eight, recorded at the fabled Rancho de la Luna studio in Joshua Tree, stands out as a real labour of love.
