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Reviews / / 26 · 02 · 2021 Drill’s ascendancy to become a truly global form is one of 2021’s most potent music developments. Beginning as a niche style in Chicago before taking hold in New York, the sound’s UK centric evolution has been followed by tandem developments in Nigeria and Ghana. French rap could be the next to cross-pollinate with drill’s icy potency, with Gazo’s ‘Drill FR’ presenting a lucid theses on what wild beasts could emerge from the cross-pollination of the varied strands of sonic DNA. ‘Drill FR’ c...

Music journalist from Wick fulfils lifelong ambition with guide to essential albums By Alan Hendry  |  Updated: 11:28, 23 February 2021 Get the Courier and Groat sent to your inbox every week and swipe through an exact replica of the day's newspaper Robin Murray joined Clash Magazine as an intern and is now editor-in-chief. Picture: Garry Jones A music journalist from Caithness has fulfilled a lifelong ambition by writing a book about the albums he regards as essential listening. Robin Murray said he had tried to look beyond tried and tested classics and, in doing so, was able to reasses...

Music Review: I.M - Duality

Staten Island rapper CJ’s explosive rise has been The overwhelming DSP stats brought a backlash, though, and while debut project ‘Loyalty Over Royalty’ offers a few surprises over its nine track span it will do nothing to dissuade doubters who believe the rapper is surface-over-depth. ‘Politics’ is a crunching opener, it’s ominous swagger asserting itself amid arena-level production. Indeed, sonically, ‘Loyalty Over Royalty’ is a triumph of major league drill production; the drops have a tsunami-like quality, while the eerie, ice-cold atmosphere dril...

Fred Hampton's short life still resonates. Someone who fought against a system he viewed as unjust, his death robbed the United States of a potent young leader, someone who - if he had lived - could well have enacted substantive change not just in his home city of Chicago, but the country as a whole. The story of Fred Hampton - or rather, the man who betrayed him - is broadcast in new film Judas And The Black Messiah, a work that will, hopefully, amplify awareness of the issues that the young Black Panther campaigned on. Executive produced by Hit-Boy, the soundtrack is a gilded selection of...