DEAD
On a record that swings chaotically between menacing rap onslaughts and gospel-choir vocal arrangements, Young Fathers have really delivered.
Releasing your debut album can be a nerve-wracking experience for any artist, but expectation levels are increased to gargantuan proportions when you've been tipped as 'ones to watch' for the past five years. Young Fathers were being hyped as long as ago as 2009, but this, their first album proper, is poles apart from the pop-leaning songs that first gained them attention.
Album review: Young Fathers, 'Dead'. This debut proper from the Scottish trio finds their unique brand of global hip-hop hitting the sweetest spots possible...
Young Fathers continue Anticon's reputation for experimentalism, but they never lose sight of their pop sensibilities, writes <strong>Killian Fox</strong>
This Edinburgh-based trio stir up a globalised, magpie-ish stew of hip-hop, electronica and leftfield pop that partly recalls the pioneering spirit of Massive Attack, writes <strong>Alexis Petridis</strong>