What’s burning? #10
Spike Dxxghty
After a brief interlude, we have made it to number ten; I wasn’t sure this day would come when I started, but here we are, exceeding all self-made expectations. Set fire to your demands with What’s Burning? #10.
Someone new is filling the room with inescapable fumes that don’t taste half bad. Spike Dxxghty is in his infancy with this being just the second year of releases, but the mic control and flow that sounds like it’s spat through a rye smile would have you mistaken. ‘Glamour Town’ promises to be a good introduction to a sound that is only going to grow and develop.
Much further along the timeline is Kemastry, who has been on his solo grind the past few years, putting out some top shit that spreads its creative wings way past just rapping. Slowing it down on his latest, with help from Harvs Le Toad and BNMO, ‘Lovesick’ and its beautifully vulnerable imagery acts as a precursor for another solo endeavour, ‘Firework Factory’, expected soon.
This one is slightly more self-indulgent, not that these aren’t all a little bit, but this one had to appear. Having lived at a fishing lodge in Canada for four months, an album from my favourite Fisherman rapper and Canadian rapper dropping whilst I was out there, was, well, biblical. Of course it’s Trellion and Danny Lover with ‘Ok, the fire.’, ‘Pail’ would be my pick of the bunch.
Okay another fresh face to burn in the sun. Kinda lo-fi and the third around-two minute-release this year from the understated Young Theodore, ‘CRO!’ dropped just last week. I hate the term ‘one to watch’ cause it never fully justifies how good they are now, but Young Theodore would fit this inaccurate subgroup- he’ll be burning shit for a while me thinks.
Let’s round off with something I find quite grounding. Through the sound, samples and topics this drop seemed quintessentially English. looms. dropped ‘The Carillon’ early summer this year, but as with most looms. releases, you get more and more after each listen. ‘The cheapest dry cleaners’ is for me exotic in its ordinariness and captures a moment you can revisit time and time again.