| Take Me to God | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Jah Wobble |
| Cover: | Take Me To God.jpg |
| Released: | 1994 |
| Label: | Island |
| Producer: | Jah Wobble |
| Prev Title: | Rising Above Bedlam |
| Prev Year: | 1991 |
| Next Title: | Spinner |
| Next Year: | 1995 |
Take Me to God is an album by the English musician Jah Wobble, released in 1994.[1] [2] It is credited to his Invaders of the Heart.[3] The first single was "Becoming More Like God".[4] Take Me to God peaked at No. 13 on the UK Albums Chart.[5] Wobble supported it with a UK tour.[6] He considered 1998's Umbra Sumus to be a sequel.[7]
Wobble used 12 guest vocalists on the album.[8] Dolores O'Riordan sang on "The Sun Does Rise".[9] Abdel Ali Slimani contributed vocals to the raï song "I'm an Algerian".[10] Natacha Atlas sang on the three songs that she cowrote.[11] Baaba Maal guested on "Angels".[12]
The Guardian said that "Wobble sensibly allows a prodigious list of guests to lead the line, while his own Blakean declarations add a nutty metaphysics to a deliriously creative album"; the paper's Caroline Sullivan later listed the album as the seventh best of 1994.[13] [14] Trouser Press concluded that "the record takes on far too much to be thoroughly solid, but it is still recommended."[15] The Independent determined that "it's the rhythms that count: deep, unhurried and underpinned by the marvellous bass of Wobble himself."[16] The Times noted that "Wobble has evolved into a figure of almost buddha-like calm and authority as he threads his fat, languid bass lines through a cosmopolitan patchwork of musical styles."[17] The Oakland Tribune praised "the propulsive dance-rock rhythmic base."[18]
AllMusic wrote that "it's an interesting assortment of tracks combining currents flowing through mid-'90s alternative rock, world music, reggae, club beats, dub, and African pop, adding up to an extremely heterogeneous whole." In 2024, Uncut listed Take Me to God as the 301st greatest album of the 1990s.[19]