Akala - Its Not A Rumour [2007/Mp3/192VBR] - Kevmo
It's Not A Rumour' is an album that crystallises everything that's gone before it and smashes through current rap conventions.
It draws on a spectrum of influences from balladry and soul to trance, punk and far beyond.
On 'This Is London', Akala takes off where The Clash's 'London Calling' left off - check that chiming guitar intro - and lifts the lid
on the grimey cheek-by-jowl of the capital. On 'Stand Up', a incendiary Van Halen-style riff soundtracks a call-to-arms for every UK ghetto.
For 'Yeah Yeah Yeah', Akala samples doomy, Black Sabbath-style guitars and attacks modern fakery in all its forms.
On the sublime 'Hold Your Head Up', he lays down a hard-living autobiography over a rolling Isley Brothers soul groove.
But it's on 'Shakespeare' where Akala busts out the level of lyricism that skyrockets him beyond the reach of any contemporary.
Over the grinding breakdown of Tomcraft's trance smash 'Loneliness' Akala spits lyrics that bend the laws of street linguistics from
slang to poetry to science and back again into the manifesto for tomorrows hop hop.
Track Listing
01. Stand Up
02. Yeah Yeah Yeah
03. Edge - Akala & Niara
04. Shakespeare
05. Carried Away
06. This Is London
07. Bullshit
08. Roll Wid Us
09. Cold
10. Hold Your Head Up - Akala & Selah
11. Why Do - Akala & Ms. Dynamite
12. Edge
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It's Not A Rumour' is an album that crystallises everything that's gone before it and smashes through current rap conventions.
It draws on a spectrum of influences from balladry and soul to trance, punk and far beyond.
On 'This Is London', Akala takes off where The Clash's 'London Calling' left off - check that chiming guitar intro - and lifts the lid
on the grimey cheek-by-jowl of the capital. On 'Stand Up', a incendiary Van Halen-style riff soundtracks a call-to-arms for every UK ghetto.
For 'Yeah Yeah Yeah', Akala samples doomy, Black Sabbath-style guitars and attacks modern fakery in all its forms.
On the sublime 'Hold Your Head Up', he lays down a hard-living autobiography over a rolling Isley Brothers soul groove.
But it's on 'Shakespeare' where Akala busts out the level of lyricism that skyrockets him beyond the reach of any contemporary.
Over the grinding breakdown of Tomcraft's trance smash 'Loneliness' Akala spits lyrics that bend the laws of street linguistics from
slang to poetry to science and back again into the manifesto for tomorrows hop hop.
Track Listing
01. Stand Up
02. Yeah Yeah Yeah
03. Edge - Akala & Niara
04. Shakespeare
05. Carried Away
06. This Is London
07. Bullshit
08. Roll Wid Us
09. Cold
10. Hold Your Head Up - Akala & Selah
11. Why Do - Akala & Ms. Dynamite
12. Edge
Click here to download...
