Hollie Cook – Shy Girl In Dub!
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Hollie Cook – Shy Girl In Dub!
Release Info
Label
Mr Bongo
Format
CD / LP / DR
Street date
April 18, 2026
Contact
Bandcamp Record Label
Tracklist
2. Dub Baby
3. Rockaway Dub
4. Night Dub
5. Dubbing On
6. Pictures Dub
7. Frontline Dub
8. Dub Me In Your Arms
9. Wolf Dub
10. Deep Dub
11. Dub Operator
12. We Share Dub
Where the original leaned into polished pop reggae and lovers rock, this one goes the other way with its grit-under-the-fingernails reimagining. Here, producer Ben McKone, who worked on the original, goes full analogue mode. No slick digital tricks. Just hands on the desk, riding faders, sending echoes into space, shaping each track in real time. You can hear the difference straight away.
And honestly, it makes sense he handled this himself. Bringing in a dub legend might’ve been the obvious move, but McKone knows these tunes inside out. He rebuilds them from the ground up, giving the riddims room to breathe. Hollie’s backing band General Roots, joined by musicians like guitarist Gyasi Crosdale, keyboard player Cyrus Richards, and sax player Tomoya Forster, really shine here. The basslines hit harder, the drums feel heavier, and everything sits deeper in the mix.
Shy Dub opens things heavy. The bass leads, and Hollie’s voice floats in and out like a ghost through delay and reverb. Dub Baby keeps that flow going, while Rockaway Dub keeps that sunny feel from the original but grounds it in a proper one-drop groove that pulls you in.
Then you’ve got Night Dub, flipping the original Horseman collab into something built for a proper sound system session. Alongside Dubbing On, it’s one of those moments where you can almost picture the speakers shaking. From there, the quality doesn’t dip. Every track feels carefully worked, not just tossed off as a remix.
The album stays consistent all the way through, and it closes beautifully with We Share Dub. It takes Hollie’s cover of Skip Mahoney & The Casuals’ 1974 tune We Share Love and turns it into something spacious and almost hypnotic. Minimal, echo-heavy, and full of atmosphere.
If the Shy Girl set felt a bit too clean for your taste, this version brings more weight, more depth, more space. It’s not just a dub companion, it’s a whole different experience.
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