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MIKE’s ‘Weight of the World’ matches experimental production with vulnerability

Four stars. Rooted in both the sprawling, densely packed metropolis of New York City and the limitless virtual terrain of the internet is the fervently DIY and non-conforming Hip-Hop collective…

Moses Boyd delivers exhilarating and poignant new party-jazz on ‘Dark Matter’

Five stars The 28-old producer-slash-drummer and avant-garde jazz pioneer Moses Boyd once described his mother as a ‘hipster’ before the word came into being; in an interview with Trench two…

London’s radical new jazz scene lands itself in Glasgow

Since the virtuosic Californian saxophonist Kamasi Washington featured on Kendrick Lamar’s politically charged and era-defining jazz rap album To Pimp a Butterfly (2015) jazz has made a triumphant return to…

JPEGMAFIA: Blisteringly Polemical and Avant-Garde Hip hop

Few artists are capable of capturing our polarised, chaotic and internet-reliant times as the idiosyncratic Baltimore rapper JPEGMAFIA. First coming onto the scene in 2018 with Veteran, he introduced a…

Why is class absent from The Student’s list of liberation groups?

Editors note: The views expressed in this opinion piece are of the writer’s only. We kindly ask readers to turn to check out plenty of content in our Voices, Features…

Live Review/Interview: Drenge bring ghoulish grunge to Glasgow

Hidden away on Glasgow’s St Vincent Street is King Tut’s Wah-Wah Hut, one of Scotland’s legendary and historic homes of live rock music. Arriving here on a grey Wednesday evening…

2 Chainz displays maturity and nuance on Rap or Go to the League

Aspiration, ambition and ascension are all thematic hallmarks of many a successful rapper, and the move from deprivation to glory is perhaps the most familiar hip-hop narrative. In Rap or…

JID – DiCaprio 2 Album review

Technical prowess and lyrical complexity are skills hard to come by in an age of showy mumble rap and buzzy trap beats. It is in these areas where the auspicious…