If I told you Matisyahu was a man courting the strict straddling beard of a member of the Amish community and dressed in the ascetic black suit of a Hasidic Jew regaling us with lolloping reggae narratives in a faintly unlikely Jamaican accent you’d laugh. But the sad truth of the matter is, Matisyahu is all this and more.
A 25-year-old follower of the Lubavitch sect, Matisyahu (who grew up Matthew Miller) nurtures his adolescent love of Bob Marley with some dickey-yickey-dikey spiritual hokum and a sprinkling of the torah.
Given the unlikeness of it all you’d be forgiven for thinking it was going to be marvellous. Sadly, the songs are not half as remarkable as the man.