A quick note about album covers - none of these are really selling it, are they? Survival and Confrontation I guess have at least got something interesting going on, but there's something very odd about the cover of Kaya, like a bootleg from a Mexican street market. Anyway, it's 1978 now and some of the riotous fever of Exodus seems to have subsided. We're back to the sun and the Easy Skanking. Perhaps the weed has finally gotten to him.

Fantastic to think that something like this could have been a top 5 album in the UK. And it's just on the periphery of when I might have been aware of things, being dragged round John Menzies or Boots and told not to touch anything. If I'd have been 7 in '77 that would really have been something.

Overall Kaya may be a bit of a blurred round the edges smile-fest, but it's also incredible to think they are still in touch with the Soul Revolution roots. The constant updating and backwards and forwards referencing of the songs is almost Plaskett-esque.