| Young Fathers / White Men Are Black Men Too |
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| Album: | White Men Are Black Men Too | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Young Fathers | Added: | Apr 2015 | |
| Label: | Big Dada | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2015-06-19 | Pull Date: | 2015-08-21 |
| Week Ending: | Aug 2 | Jul 12 | Jul 5 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Oct 29, 2021: | Everything in Particular Shame | 4. | Dec 11, 2015: | A Visit From Drum (Best of '15) Shame | |
| 2. | Jul 16, 2021: | Everything in Particular Get Started | 5. | Jul 30, 2015: | Clean Copper Radio Still Running | |
| 3. | Jan 13, 2017: | The Intercept Shame | 6. | Jul 09, 2015: | channel 0+i 27 |
| Album Review |
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| DJ Muscat Reviewed 2015-06-12 | ||
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Genre: indie, hip-hop (not some terrible crossover shite…just a quality hip-hop group moving into pop structures) Young Fathers = a clan of talented Scottish hip-hoppers with a knack for grit and soul. They won the Mercury prize last year (beating out FKA Twigs and Damon Albarn) and have returned already with what I think is a much better album. Please also check out Tape Two in the library because I think it’s my favorite of theirs. More difficult to see their hip-hop roots in this release but it’s still a fun, off-kilter, poppy affair. Others: TV on the Radio, Algiers, Metronomy Favorites: 5, 7, 4, 2, 12, 10, 8. FCCs: clean copy. 1.(3:10) Mid. Plinky xylophone atop some distorted guitar. Nice vocal interplay 2.(3:32) *** Catchy drum machine + background coo combo. Switches off to another vocalist midway through. Keeps building…neat little keyboard fooling around at toward the end 3.(2:39) Bass, woodblock. Heavily processed group vocals. Strangely sinister. Doesn’t move around much but interesting nonetheless. 4.(2:27) *** Soulful…more xylophone. Cool blown-out little hip-hop lilt. Really like the simple piano element. Short and sweet. 5.(2:56) *** Fast constant keyboard. Awesome vocals and thumping almost krautrock groove. Favorite track? 6.(3:03) Mid/slow. Beautiful croon. Tense string section. Peels back layers for the bridge 7.(3:10) *** Warped vaguely middle eastern melody. Big thumping drums. Acts as the manifesto for the album themes…pretty awesome song as far as I’m concerned 8.(3:18) ** Skewed r&b. 9.(2:56) Mid. More of the same…builds up into a fun finish 10.(2:53) ** Total tv on the radio vibe. Electro-rock with emotive vocals. Little whistle passage. 11.(2:39) Organ backdrop. Unadorned vocals. Big bashing drums. 12.(4:47) ** Soul…50’s feel (but turned weird and clearly 21st century). Back half leaps into Animal Collective levels of psychedelia. | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Still Running | 7. | Old Rock N Roll | |||
| 2. | Shame | 8. | Nest | |||
| 3. | Feasting | 9. | Liberated | |||
| 4. | 27 | 10. | John Doe | |||
| 5. | Rain Or Shine | 11. | Dare Me | |||
| 6. | Sirens | 12. | Get Started |