by
Bob Vylan
- Record Label: Ghost Theatre
- Release Date: Apr 22, 2022
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Apr 20, 2022Many outstanding moments on this. ... A vicious mix of grime, hip-hop and punk, Bob Vylan Presents The Price Of Life is an intersectional look at what it’s like to exist as a black person in Britain within a capitalist society.
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Apr 26, 2022The duo have created something extraordinary here - something that definitely needs to be heard.
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Apr 20, 2022Bobby is a jack of all trades when it comes to surmising his subject matter while balancing the line of fact, fun, and fierce emotion. It makes for one of the year’s most essential records yet.
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The WireJun 14, 2022Their words are not protest or polemic, but messages from the frontline of a war that’s being waged under our noses and hidden in plain sight. And also, crucially, it completely slaps. [Jun 2022, p.44]
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Apr 25, 2022The Price of Life’s relentless delivery of its agenda is a tiring but invigorating shot in the arm. Will time show this to be their best album? Maybe not, is this an album by an act quickly becoming one of the most important acts in the UK whose message demands to be heard? Absolutely.
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Apr 22, 2022This is one of the most incendiary British records of 2022.
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Apr 22, 2022In every way, ‘Bob Vylan Presents: The Price Of Life’ is a far more eclectic record than anything the duo have released before. Their alt-rock tracks about inequality will speak to a wider audience but the band never soften their edges or pull their punches in a bid for accessibility.
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Apr 20, 2022Bob Vylan arrive as a much-needed wake-up call, but it's one that's already electric. [May 2022, p.81]
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MojoApr 20, 2022The whole thing is furious, funny and, not least in the toy-town conscious reggae of Health Is Wealth, deeply loveable. [Jun 2022, p.92]
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