Slackness is a collaborative album between acoustic

Acoustic music

Acoustic music comprises music that solely or primarily uses instruments which produce sound through entirely acoustic means, as opposed to electric or electronic means...

 ska

Ska

Ska |Jamaican]] ) is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s, and was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae. Ska combined elements of Caribbean mento and calypso with American jazz and rhythm and blues...

 vocalist Chris Murray and the New York City

New York City

New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...

 ska band The Slackers

The Slackers

The Slackers are a New York City band, formed in Brooklyn in 1991. The band's sound is a mix of ska, rocksteady, reggae, dub, soul, garage rock, and jazz...

. Two songs (Running From Safety, Rastaman Rock) also appear on The Slackers and Friends, as different versions. "Rastaman Rock" is renamed to "I Am a Rasta Man" on The Slackers and Friends. The track "Janie Jones" is a cover of a Clash

The Clash

The Clash were an English punk rock band that formed in 1976 as part of the original wave of British punk. Along with punk, their music incorporated elements of reggae, ska, dub, funk, rap, dance, and rockabilly...

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Track listing

1. "Janie Jones" – 3:21
2. "Running from Safety" – 2:46
3. "The Real Ska" – 2:06
4. "Dangerous Hearts" – 3:28
5. "The World's About Me" – 2:07
6. "Rastaman Rock" – 2:14
7. "The Promise" – 5:01
8. "Home" – 2:54
9. "One Everything" – 3:30
10. "Rastaman Reggae" – 2:31
11. "Mountain of Sorrows" – 3:34
12. "Why We Go to War" - 3:11