Lee "Scratch" PerryBest Lee "Scratch" Perry Albums Ranked

King Perry

loudandquiet

8.0

“Lee “Scratch” Perry finished recording King Perry only days before his death in 2021, leaving the remaining production duties to engineer Daniel Boyle, with whom Perry had worked for the past decade. Knowing this, it’s tempting to try and spot which tracks here are Perry productions and which are Boyle’s, partly out of nerdy curiosity but also because King Perry is a record of two rather distinct ”

Heavy Rain

pitchfork

7.4

“The dub innovator reworks 2019’s Rainford, stripping the original down into a form that is warmer and weirder.”

Rainford

pitchfork

7.0

“After years spent trading on a bulletproof back catalog and eccentric persona, the Jamaican titan teams up with UK dub heavyweight Adrian Sherwood for a welcome return to form.”

Panic In Babylon

rollingstone

7.0

“If you buy one of the reggae legend’s many recent CDs, make it this one. You say you didn’t know Lee Perry won a Grammy for Jamaican E.T. in 2003? You say the nutty old dubmaster is hard to keep track of, living in Zurich and all? True, he’s released some twenty albums in the […]”

The Wonderman Years

pitchfork

6.8

“In the early 90s, it was almost impossible to score good reggae. Flipping through chests of used UB40 and Steel Pulse records, I never found any treasure, and the Trustafarians at school had all but ruined Bob for me. To top it off, most Jamaican records I could find were so aesthetically off-putting as to warrant hesitation. As it turns out, whether encased in hand-drawn covers featuring dreadloc”

King Perry

pitchfork

5.9

“On what is billed as his final studio album, the late reggae legend is treated as an afterthought, buried in the mix beneath an incongruous blend of electronic styles.”