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Massive Attack have teamed up with Algiers, Young Fathers, and Saul Williams to release an incredibly interesting audio-visual EP that feels like more of an art installation than three tracks that happened to be released together. The EP, entitled Eutopia, is essentially a series of three mini-lectures with enough audio and visual stimulation to keep …

Just ahead of the release of their third album Cocoa Sugar, Scottish hip-hop trio Young Fathers have released a new track, Toy. The band Alloysious Massaquoi, Graham ‘G’ Hastings and Kayus Bankole, have already released two tracks from the album, lead single Lord and, currently recieving heavy airplay, In my view, and Toy follows on …

Following last Novembers news that Young Fathers had completed work on their new album, the trio – Alloysious Massaquoi, Graham ‘G’ Hastings and Kayus Bankole have followed up the first glimpse of the new record, Lord, with a new track In my view. They’ve also revealed more details of the album. Titled Cocoa Sugar, the …

2015 has been a great year for hip-hop music. With the so many legends returning to the game, it was inevitable this was going to be a strong list. But it’s not just the older players that make things up. New and emerging acts have also come along to put their own twist on things. …

When this year’s Mercury nominations were announced, I don’t think anybody would have picked Young Fathers out as the winner. But that’s the beauty of the Mercurys. They don’t always pick the obvious choice, and often go for something a little more innovative and leftfield. But win they did with album ‘DEAD’. It brought the …

Living in Edinburgh but with the roots all over the place, but principally Scotland, Liberia and Nigeria, Young Fathers aka Alloysious, G and Kayus have made an album, their debut at that, that inhabits a musical world somewhere between hip-hop and indie, but taking in influences from all of the place, including their own heritages. …