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TRACK: Andy Cooper – ‘The Man’: dizzying delivery from Ugly Duckling wordsmith; LP to follow
ANDY COOPER, the Californian wordsmith who was one-third of old-skool rhymers Ugly Duckling, is back. He’s got third solo LP ‘L.I.S.T.E.N.’ (Lyrical Innovation Supplying The Ear’s Need),Supplying The Ear’s Need), locked and loaded; it’ll be with you digitally on September 25th, with the wax bringing up the rear on December 11th (trust us; it’s murder out …
TRACK: Natty Wylah – ‘Cinders’: atmospheric and sharp North London rhymes
NATTY WYLAH, the north-of-the-Thames lyricist who’s been carving out a reputation over the past year or so with single drops like the musically laidback but lexically bold and proud “WHOAMI” and the chronic-funk of May’s “4 Siblings” has just dropped a new single for those Northern Line sundowns – “Cinders”. He’s a crisp new voice …
DROPPIN’ KNOWLEDGE: TRACK: Mama Odé – ‘Creole Brothers’: crisp, whispered fraternal rhymes
BROTHERS Reginald Omas Mamode IV and Jeen Bassa have been out there carving beats explorations independent of each other for a few years now, so it makes sense that they bring their respective sciences together under one banner; and so they have, as Mama Odé. And they’ve just dropped the crisp, intimate breaks whispers of …
SEE: Cian Ciaran feat Jehst and Wibidi – ‘Are You Down With Me?’: hazy breaks’ call for collective strength
AFTER yesterday’s powerful live stream in solidarity, remembrance, rage and consciousness-raising marking the 75th anniversary of the devastating nuclear destruction of Hiroshima, politically acute Super Furry Animal Cian Ciarán today releases the single-cut version of the track from that six-hour stream, “Are You Down With Me”, in which wordsmiths Jehst and Wibidi use speech as …
SEE: The Allergies – ‘I Just Got That Feeling’: fightin’ the 3am blues with crisp Brizzle beatz
HELL, we’ve all been there. The bleary bemusement of the digital clock reading 3.29am. Jeez; and you have this weird intuition, something is off-balance somewhere. In a rare, more introspective moment, Bristol’s crisp party beatz outfit The Allergies have released a video for “I Just Got That Feeling”, making a groove out of the 3am …
New Video: Ratking – 100
Tense, impressive NYC hiphop. Unsettled by the playground-taunting delivery of Wiki; troubled by the too-calm detachment of Hak; confused by the overlaid images and flitting shapes of the video; marvelling at that most-ear-catching hiphop skill of internal rhymes that seem to be falling over each other to interact; unable to relax into the music because …