Clive Matthews, Lone Ark - Going Home (2025)

Jamaican singer Clive Matthews has enjoyed a stop-start career, with relatively brief periods of activity in the 70s, 80s and early 2000s followed by a late blossoming over the last decade - a career bump provided by the backing of Spanish roots reggae outfit A-Lone Productions. They're at the controls again on Matthews' second album, Going Home, which marks the Trenchtown-born artist's first full length for seven years. Rooted in his love of roots reggae albums of the 1970s, but with occasional updated instrumentation, it's a classic-sounding set that provides a perfect platform for Matthews' conscious lyrics and honeyed, effortlessly soulful voice. The results are undeniably impressive, with our current favourites including 'Yes I Do', 'Ancient Lion', dancefloor-ready title track 'Going Home' and the pleasingly jaunty 'Reggae Music'.

Tracklist:
1-1 Clive Matthews;Lone Ark - Sermon On The Mount [3:26]
1-2 Clive Matthews;Lone Ark - Jah To The Rescue [3:37]
1-3 Clive Matthews;Lone Ark - Ancient Lion [3:30]
1-4 Clive Matthews;Lone Ark - Got To Be Sure [3:29]
1-5 Clive Matthews;Lone Ark - Live Not For Vanity, Pt. II [3:47]
1-6 Clive Matthews;Lone Ark - Yes I Do [4:11]
1-7 Clive Matthews;Lone Ark - Going Home [3:23]
1-8 Clive Matthews;Lone Ark - Hot Lover [3:23]
1-9 Clive Matthews;Lone Ark - Reggae Music [3:49]
1-10 Clive Matthews;Lone Ark - Only Jah Is Able [3:32]