Spoek Mathambo - Father Creeper '2012

Tracks list

       It's a notable shift, but the only thing one should read into Spoek
Mathambo's jump from the funky and chic label BBE to the monolithic indie Sub
Pop, is that the innovative African producer's music is highly desirable to all
sorts of edgy tastemakers. Father Creeper sounds like an artist-driven, sophmore
effort with little or no label interference. Spoek's own dark brand of African
wonky pop incorporates dubstep, post-kwaito sounds, politically driven
horror-hop, and even the rock-rap promise of Ice-T's Body Count delivered on the
bang-your-head monster "Let Them Talk," little of this being the "hip" kind of
fluff a jazzy marketing department would desire. It's the Last Poets-sized sense
of duty that makes Spoek so compelling and his Diplo-styled sense of adventure
that makes him so exciting, with drums destroying speakers, keyboards beaming
down from the mothership, and woozy African chants all whizzing around this
ominous album. As electro as it enters, it exits on an organic note as the
closing "Grave" falls somewhere between Prince and Hendrix with a dramatic,
wistful and starry-eyed finish that's like Rocky Horror from some African
Guerilla theater. Thrilling, but this is also a sobering atrocity exhibition
coming from the flip-side of hip-hop where gold and bling always means death and
blood money. Sweet and sour are rarely at such odds and while the dark seems to
be winning here, Spoek makes the "hard truths" sound like "real talk" while
putting some of the world's most innovative rebel music underneath. ~ David
Jeffries

Tracklist:
1.01 - Spoek Mathambo  - Kites (5:05)
1.02 - Spoek Mathambo  - Venison Fingers (2:40)
1.03 - Spoek Mathambo  - Put Some Red On It (5:39)
1.04 - Spoek Mathambo  - Let Them Talk ft. Yolanda (5:01)
1.05 - Spoek Mathambo  - Dog To Bone (4:50)
1.06 - Spoek Mathambo  - Skorokoro (Walking Away) ft. Okmalumkoolkat (4:50)
1.07 - Spoek Mathambo  - Father Creeper ft. Xander Ferreira (4:57)
1.08 - Spoek Mathambo  - We Can Work ft. Rebone (3:34)
1.09 - Spoek Mathambo  - Stuck Together (4:56)
1.10 - Spoek Mathambo  - Grave (Intro) (3:01)
1.11 - Spoek Mathambo  - Grave (6:24) 

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