More than anything else, this compilation can be described as simply “necessary.” The longest running ska band in the US has been increasingly absent from record stores since Moon Ska went under. In Retrospect remedies that, collecting 21 of the band’s choice material from 1985’s Recriminations EP to 2002’s Enemy Of The System. Of course that leaves little room for anything other than the most obvious choices, but having all this material in one place is a huge plus. [more]