недеља, 17. новембар 2024.

17.11.2024-WRETCH 32 FR32 (Polydor,2017)

 

RAP / HIP-HOP


Perhaps stung into action by the meteoric successes of Skepta and Stormzy, Wretch 32 returns with almost indecent haste just a year after Growing Over Life. The opening salvo of “DPMO” (“don’t piss me off”) and “Gracious” establish a mood of pressurised celebrity that seems beneath him: aren’t these just the sort of rote complaints we’ve heard countless times before, from lesser talents? Wretch’s skills are better employed playing both sides of the sharply-observed gender battle “His And Hers (Perspective)”, and outlining early experiences of racism, and the emergence of pride and self-awareness, in “Colour Purple”; while even a routine streetlife rap such as “Thugs Prayer” contains cute throwaway barbs like “Everybody fly, but ain’t none of us pilots”. The limp, autotuned love song “Happy” and drearily positivist “Good Morning” are lazy nods to the mainstream, but elsewhere Wretch is better served by the dark sparkle of arrangements featuring grimy sub-bass synths and itchy electro beats tinted with eerie vocal samples, thumb-piano and synthetic pan-pipes.

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