This song by Bristol-based reggae revivalists The Co-Operators is sadly relevant to what’s going on around the world today. I really wish it wasn’t.

The Co-operators are a bunch of ska and rocksteady revivalists based in Waggle Dance Studios on the outskirts of Bristol.

Inspired by the classic studios of Jamaica, they recreate the sounds of a bygone era, eschewing digital techniques for real instruments.

The driving force behind the project is producer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Eeyun Purkins who, as well as being a one-man rhythm section, built the project and studio from the ground up with a small inner circle of singers and players.

Together they’ve released a crate of singles and five albums since their 2019 debut Rhythms From The Kitchen Sink.

Their last is called Sounds From The Fridge, titled after a colloquial term used by immigrants from the Caribbean to the UK in the ’50s and ’60s to describe the bleak, monochrome and cold social and environmental conditions they found on arrival in post-war Britain.

This is their latest tune, featuring as always a guest singer, in this case Marina Peloso, aka Marina P.