you should listen to dub RIGHT NOW

the rock criticism industrial complex focuses on what is honestly a very restrictive way of thinking about music that is unfortunately the main one taught to people using their music tastes to define their identity especially on the internet

this idea that there are Artists who create Albums. these Artists have a body of work consistent to the Artist. in musicology this is called Rockism because it originates with the 1960s development of rock-as-art, which followed this template, because this is the template so often used, it is extremely hard to escape this hierarchy of artists and albums. which sucks because many genres are entirely outside of it - techno, EDM, dub.

if you asked "what's a good dub album?" your heart would be in the right place, but you would be trying to take the rockist rubric to a genre based around, more than anything, a beat, a pure sound and rhythm. it's a cultural thing, a communal engagement. so you look for artists instead. the way you get "into" dub is that you go on youtube and you search up King Tubbys DJ Mix or like. Best of Lee Scratch Perry. 

the first thing you will notice is that all of these songs have different beats, different tempos, but almost-identical basslines and instrumentation... and also an underlying groove that is hypnotic, based around a sort of fractal organization of accents. like a ziggurat, every individual offbeat is emphasized in decreasing order of smallness...

1. the second half-beat of the 4/4 measure
2. the second and fourth quarter-beats of the 4/4 measure
3. the second/fourth/sixth/eighth eighth-notes of the 4/4 measure

and continuing onward down that infinite pattern. it is a groove almost always called "hypnotic." it's more psychedelic than anything.

it's like no other music on earth. it's the only music aliens would ever find interesting. enjoy.