I had a busy day yesterday, and to be honest I was struggling to find a decent album to talk about from this week's releases. There's Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen, Wings, The Doobie Brothers and a cover version of Sgt Pepper's by the Flaming Lips - all a bit 70s and beyond.
However....
I've found a gem: Run The Jewels 2 by Run The Jewels is filthy sweary hip hop and an absolute belter. I was listening to it on the train home last night (it was quite late) and sitting opposite me was a bloke wearing a Bath University sweatshirt, Beats Solos on his head and a pale blue iPhone 5c in his hand, and he probably thought he was cool as. What he didn't know was that the 50 something bloke opposite was listening to more hipster music than he was. I don't know that for sure, but I'd put good money on it. Make sure you listen to this one, but don't tell your mum it was me that recommended it.
Talking of hip hop, if you've not yet discovered Young Fathers please do so, they have just won the Mercury Music Prize with the wonderful Dead, and they are exciting, in a scary choreographed way, when they play live. Stars*.
Good, Scottish, hip hop <--- words that I never expected to see in the same sentence.
*Anne and I saw them live about 18 months ago, in a crowd of about 30, and we knew then they'd be stars. Take that cool dude in the Bath Uni sweatshirt.
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