Speech Debelle
Speech Debelle - Speech Therapy
Thu, 04/06/2009 - 14:39 by Tim ChippingEven with high hopes, 25-year-old London girl, Speech Debelle’s debut album is a revelation. With a musical palette even wider than The Roots (but occupying a similar headspace), Speech’s passive but focussed tone rolls naturally over understated beats, breezy folk-pop, subtle strings and late-night pianos, in collaboration with producer Wayne Lotek and the likes of Roots Manuva, Micachu and, most surprisingly, Tuung.
There are echoes of Plan B’s dark tales of abandonment and hurt in her songs, which sound troublingly autobiographical. While the subject matter is familiar, her storytelling is cliché free. But it’s her voice that’s keeps us returning to ‘Speech Therapy’ on an almost daily basis: conversational yet effortlessly musical and rhythmically inventive, Speech often sounds as if she’s recording these raps in secret – quietly so as not to be evicted from some grimy bedsit.
This is a really special record, guaranteed a place in our end-of-year best-of list and extremely worthy of its new home on our dusty hip-hop shelf. And that’s not a euphemism.
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I totally agree,that women is better than mens in rapping!
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I totally agree,that women is better than mens in rapping!
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