Higher Power by Big Audio Dynamite

Higher Power, the seventh album from Mick Jones's Big Audio Dynamite, arrived under the trimmed-down name Big Audio, out on Columbia in the US on 8 November 1994 and in the UK the following week. By now the old Clash guitarist was steering a very different crew from the one he'd started with in London a decade earlier: Nick Hawkins on guitar, Gary Stonadge on bass, Chris Kavanagh on drums, with Andre Shapps on keyboards and Michael Custance on percussion joining that year.

The mission hadn't changed, though: punk attitude spliced with dance beats, hip-hop, reggae and funk, the grooves loose and the hooks bright. "Looking for a Song" was the single, climbing to number 24 on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart, and the band took the record on a North American tour.

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