Category: Reviews
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Good Hair: Is It Weak At The Roots? | Film Review
Chris Rock‘s Good Hair documentary style is impartial which enriches the journalistic format, but surprisingly makes him tamed and uninspiring. This is actually the antitheses of Mr. Rock – he’s strange and uncharacteristic. He wants to kick knowledge on this one, but falls short – if you squeeze the juice out of the orange it’s…
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Anane – Ananesworld | Album Review
The term ‘easy-listening’ has a bad reputation. Which is a shame because it’s most apt to describe the second album by New York-based Cape Verdean lovely, Anane; simply titled Ananesworld. With the uncharacteristically sunny weather we’ve been enjoying here in the UK, the songstress and DJ’s sophomore project is the perfect accompaniment; undemanding and easy-on-the-ear.…
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Reflection Eternal – Revolutions Per Minute | Album Review
“If Jay-Z makes rap look easy, Kweli makes rap look hard”. I utterly believe this opening quote can be used as a summary for the BK emcee’s career. Going deeper in the rabbits hole, a stupendous emcee: chameleonic and acrobatic flows, relevant and diverse subject matter in the much arid panorama of substance that composes…
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YahZarah – The Ballad Of Purple Saint James | Album Review
YahZarah is a name we have become familiar with in the last several years through various Little Brother / Justus League songs and albums and her previous releases Hear Me (2001) and Blackstar (2002). Still fresh in the minds and ears of many with last year’s Foreign Exchange group release Leave it all Behind, the…
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Maria Rita at Koko, London; 18 May | Live Review
The Brazilian living legend singer Maria Rita shook a packed Koko house on Tuesday night amidst an electrified crowd of Brazilondoners, cameras ready to click and hips ready to samba from the word ‘go’ and ‘Maria’. She opened the stage-sky glittering in red and bathed in alternating shades of ocre, indigo, rasberry and emerald that…
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Akala – DoubleThink | Album Review
From the classical music that hits your ears on the intro, to the sickeningly insightful and observant lyrics and the gentle piano that signs the album off; DoubleThink, the latest offering from UK Hip Hop artist Akala, is not what you’d expect. This is Akala’s third album and he’s come a long way from where…
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Album Review: Nas x Damien Marley – Distant Relatives
There are very few names in music who send a shiver down ones spine. But two huge names are coming together for a joint project to the delight of music fans from all corners of the earth. Nas and Damian Marley, is a “dream collaboration” many would opt for (after a Nas/2pac, Nas/Bob Marley collaboration…
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Album Review: B.O.B Presents The Adventures of Bobby Ray
The characteristics of “Hip Hop” have undergone several changes over the years. The genre has become associated with many new trends; one of which is the rappers themselves accompanying their verses with their own singing (Biz Markie made it humorous, Ja Rule suffocated the style). Andre 3000 took on this format some six years ago…
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Album Review: Jaheim – Another Round
2010 marks the return of the singer/songwriter with the unmistakeable deep baritone voice, full of soul and nostalgia. In a class of his own amongst his soul singing peers, it’s Jaheim! With his impressive first release Ghetto Love back in 2001, he conjured comparisons to greats like Luther Vandross and Teddy Pendergrass. It’s this mature…
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Live Review: Louise Golbey @ The Wilmington Arms, London
It is not for nothing that London-based singer-songwriter Louise Golbey has steadily gained a reputation as one of the Capital’s most respected up-and-coming young artists. One listen to her EP How It Is – a conveyor belt of pure aural refreshment – and you don’t need much convincing. It was on this repertoire of songs…