''Any Port in a Storm'' is the debut album released by the Reggae band
The Dirty Heads
Dirty Heads is an American reggae rock band from Huntington Beach, California. Their debut album, ''Any Port in a Storm'', was released on September 23, 2008, by Executive Music Group (Fontana/Universal). Their newest album, ''Midnight Control' ...
in 2008. The Special Edition was released in 2010. This is the only album without Matt Ochoa as the band's drummer. ''Any Port in a Storm'' was initially set to be released on
Warner Bros. Records
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until the label and band mutually separated. The Dirty Heads, having kept the
master recordings
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, later released the album through Executive Music Group (EMG), a division of
Universal Music Group
Universal Music Group N.V. (often abbreviated as UMG and referred to as just Universal Music) is a Dutch– American multinational music corporation under Dutch law. UMG's corporate headquarters are located in Hilversum, Netherlands and its ...
.
Billy Preston
William Everett Preston (September 2, 1946 – June 6, 2006) was an American keyboardist, singer and songwriter whose work encompassed R&B, rock, soul, funk, and gospel. Preston was a top session keyboardist in the 1960s, during which he ba ...
plays keyboards on multiple tracks on the album, in what would be one of the final sessions he recorded before his death.
"
Lay Me Down" was released as a single from this album. It peaked at No. 1 on the ''Billboard''
Alternative Songs
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chart.
Reviews
''Any Port in a Storm'' has received generally mixed reviews from music critics. Writing for
Allmusic
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, Ritchie Unterberger said the band "comfortably combine hip-hop and reggae with somewhat lesser dollops of conventional rock songwriting and arrangements" on the album.
Dan Raper of
PopMatters
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called it a "scattershot debut" and remarked that the Dirty Heads' "simplistic rhyme schemes and disconcerting use of the F-bomb ... quickly demonstrate there are leagues between this dick-hop and the intelligent, twisted witticisms of
Why?"
Track listing
Charts
See also
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List of Billboard number-one alternative singles of the 2010s
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References
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2008 debut albums
Dirty Heads albums