Latest urban releases
Tricky: Knowle West Boy
Despite the Tricky Kid's hatred of the limelight, Knowle West Boy deserves to be huge.
Tricky, Knowle West Boy
Despite the Tricky Kid's hatred of the limelight, Knowle West Boy deserves to be huge.
Released: 7th July 2008
Flying Lotus, Los Angeles
Steven Ellison's hometown provides the impetus for a narrative of city life where off-kilter beats, cloaked in ambience, set the soundscape.
Released: 9th June 2008
Lil' Wayne, Tha Carter III
The prodigy has a long journey before he can be spoken of as a truly 'hot rapper'.
Released: 9th June 2008
N.E.R.D, Seeing Sounds
Seeing Sounds is beautiful in places, but would be more so if N.E.R.D didn’t make a song and dance out of everything inside their head.
Released: 6th June 2008
Triple Darkness, Anathema
You'll have to be prepared to search for the real jewels amidst the all-pervading gloom.
Released: 19th May 2008
Santogold, Santogold
It's not surprising that Santogold has served up a debut this tantalising after the trauma she's been through.
Released: 12th May 2008
Martina Topley-Bird, The Blue God
A hall of mirrors, warping reflections of Ella Fitzgerald, two-tone ska, dark psychedelia and Pentangle's 'acid folk' into unsettling shapes
Released: 12th May 2008
Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip, Angles
Few could have expected this album to include more than a couple of passable songs on the back of what seemed like a novelty hit.
Released: 12th May 2008
Emmanuel Jal, Warchild
Jal has a few more rivers to cross when it comes to music.
Released: 12th May 2008
Various Artists, Many Lessons
An album that teaches us hip-hop is world music in the most literal sense of the term.
Released: 28th April 2008
Mr Drastick, The Gladiators Anthem
This is symbolic of the second-rate attitude Drastik sees fit to run with.
Released: 28th April 2008
Snoop Dogg, Ego Trippin'
It just goes to show you can't keep a good Dogg down, especially when he’s still got more to offer.
Released: 31st March 2008
Taio Cruz, Departure
Cruz could almost match John Legend in the lady-killing stakes.
Released: 17th March 2008
Galactic, From The Corner To The Block
...It's hard to imagine a more succinct display of old Orleans brass and New Orleans bounce.
Released: 3rd March 2008
N.W.A, Straight Outta Compton
A great offering for those who missed it the first time around.
Released: 28th January 2008
Lupe Fiasco, The Cool
The first contender for hip-hop record of the year has come very early...
Released: 21st January 2008
Wu-Tang Clan, 8 Diagrams
8 Diagrams sounds more suited to the back seat of cinema than the front seat of an Escalade.
Released: 10th December 2007
