Childish Gambino’s Camp
He has to top it all for the actual closing track, and he does, adding an actual proper choir who can sing and everything to three minutes of glorious pomp, then abruptly switching ambience from cavernous to coctail lounge for a four minute spoken word story about being shown up after baring his heart to a girl on the bus back home from summer camp. He’s so sensitive.
Traction For Action (feat Roots Manuva, Aleon Craft and Cyrus Malachi)
Torn away from P-Funk his natural habitat turns out to be an expert riff one of my other favouritest sounds in the whole wide world, the back catalogue of Organized Noise. Sheesh, even though he doesn’t appear on the credits I’m not entirely sure that isn’t Sleepy Brown singing the hook. I flick through a few other equally interesting to brilliant tracks before noting that Mothership Decatur is a free download and adding it to my virtual listening pile. This time I’m not going to forget about him for seven months.
Yelawolf’s Radioactive
This could go any which way. Not only does he have a spotty track record but I’m worried about the Eminem influence and whether it’s even possible to do a decent major label rap album in 2011. Isn’t there some industry rule at the moment that you have to have a Drake collaboration on the hard drive before you get a release date? If he turns up on here I’m going to be very, very sad indeed.
Portslade To Shoreham (feat Caspa and Bang On!)
I got a comment! On yesterday’s post! Not sure at this point whether it’s from a spambot or not. It seemed sincere and relevant, but then again spam can be pretty convincing these days. As ever, I’m massively ambivalent about feedback. I try and pretend like I do this stuff purely for myself, and there’s
Ringo’s Resurrection (feat PLO, Sonnyjim, Mudmowth, LV and Joshua Idehen)
That long silence was me rethinking what I want to do with Ringometry. Avoiding the issue by spending some quality time with old music, because I’m at the age where sometimes a week with UGK, Gunshot, Odd Squad, ATCQ and AC/DC seems more appealing and maybe even more urgent than scanning through a couple dozen
Olos, ‘Take 2 Sips’
Olos puts on one hell of a performance. Watch most British emcees in their YouTube vids these days and you’ll see their bodies betray them with indifference or, at best, clichéd aggressive moves. Why? I don’t know. Maybe they just don’t think it’s necessary, maybe they’re really insecure, maybe they’re too busy trying to remember
Jahdan Blakkamore
Jahdan Blakkamore came to the USA in the early 80s, age twelve, via Toronto, sneaking in disguised as his cousin. “My parents at that time heard about the great opportunities,” he says, “Times were hard in Guyana.” Not that things were at first much easier in the US. “Having to adapt to the American lifestyle