Reggae’s Gone Country. For starters, even if they were all brilliant, a mere14 tracks couldn’t begin to explore the similarities—subtle, profound, structural, lyrical and thematic—between music from Nashville and music from Jamaica.

But they’re not brilliant. They’re lazy, shifting a few beats here and there. It’s like when new age artists add woodwinds to something and call it “Amazonian.”

Country and reggae have both fostered whole cultures, whole ways of life, which are greater and grander than the music itself. This album doesn’t begin to grasp the scope of what could be an extremely informative exercise.