V in November 2021, reaching number three in New Zealand, and winning the Aotearoa Music Award for Single of the Year.
"Mr. Reggae" was a reggae-influenced song released by Hawaiian musician Billy Kaui in 1977, a year after the break-up of his band Country Comfort.
The song was compiled onto the band's 2023 album Introducing L.A.B., originally produced as a sampler for their debut European performances.
's cover as a "nicely executed" "straightforward slice of wah-guitar wizardry that feels instantly familiar".
[8] Tim Gruar of Ambient Light Blog felt the song was a "stock standard dancehall number" that was "pretty much the meat and potatoes for this ban...a little under-whelming and run-of-the-mill".