Artist: Swarm
Career: recording since 1993
Language: English
Genre: Hip-hop
In Wu-Tang world this must be the equivalent of the Godfather 3, an operatic lament for things lost that can’t be regained, interspersed with violence and death. But with ninjas. There’s such a deep strain of loss and grief running through this record, that the violence, when it bursts out, hits all the harder. The music is stripped down but ready to burst out at moment’s notice into a slice of 70s funk strings or soul wailing. Something like ‘Careful (Click, click)’ is quite incredible in that respect. In terms of sequencing, spreading the singles out over the 2nd side of the record, is a great move. All the tension built up in the first half, gets released in the new version of ‘Protect ya neck’, ‘Do you really (thang, thang)’ (the only non, RZA production – he runs a tight ship on this record, unlike its overlong and muddled predecessor) and of course, ‘Gravel pit’, one of the ubiquitous singles of 2000 and a deserved smash.
At its best: Careful (Click, click), Protect ya neck (the jump off), I can’t go to sleep, Gravel pit
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