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Michael Bugeja (The Sunday Times)

There’s a strong dub lean at play here; one that filters through the whole album from start to finish. In places (the title track for example) it evolves into a groove, while in others, such as Banquet Beat or ASAP for example, this is given a rock edge that shifts the musical bearing to another level. Elsewhere, Galea digs deeper into vintage ska (Lamp-post Boogie), ambient (Word Dub) and white reggae shuffles (Six Strings) extending the musical focus of the album. Summed up, Reclaiming Space, recorded with David Vella at Temple Studios and featuring various guest musicians, is a political record – not partisan – but vocal in its intent and succinctly so, while its musical overview, as stated earlier, owes much to skanking guitar, deep bass lines and sharp brass interjections, but in every sense, Peklectrick has gone where no other local artists I know of have ventured before!