Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip – Angles – 12/05/2008
Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip
Angles LP
Released 12th May
Sunday Best Records
Rating 4 out of 5
Optimism. It’s a great thing isn’t it? With HV being a natural panglossian we accept that optimism is a day to day feeling for us, but every so often our optimism does end up leading to that inevitable disappointment that we all feel once in a while. Now this may sound like a negative start to this review but don’t fear, this album is great, but we expected more. We expected pure musical brilliance. 12 tracks of audio genius. Unfortunately a couple of tracks really do suffer from filler syndrome (Rappers Battle and Tommy C being the 2 culprits) which disrupt the overall flow of the album.
We all know how brilliant all 3 singles are (with Beat That My Heart Skipped having ‘song of 2008’ potential written all over it) and there are other fantastic tracks to enjoy also; ‘Fixed’ is a rally call to the UK urban scene to pull its socks up, ‘Back From Hell’ is fast-paced dance floor filler and ‘Waiting For The Beat To Kick In’ is a trip around the exceptionally talented Scroobius Pip’s subconscious (which also contains a fantastic hidden track at the end which its exclusion from the track listing rather baffles us).
There is little doubt that this album is a cut above the rest and we shall be listening to it repeatedly this summer, but it’s probably 3 or 4 tracks short of becoming the genre defining masterpiece it had the potential to be.
One of those ‘end of year’ posts which everyone seems to be doing which includes all my ‘best music bits’ and half arsed reasons to back them up… « Sentric Music’s Blog by sP said,
December 24, 2008 at 12:34 pm
[...] quality little album that I expected a little bit more from if I’m honest (as you can read here) but even so there are a couple of blinders on this album which secures its inclusion in this list. [...]