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Apr 10, 2012The music suits because it's also dissociated‑-beaty enough to keep your foot tapping and your subconscious involved, but devoid of the escapist joy that is the miracle of so much Afropop produced from equally horrendous daily struggles.
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Mar 21, 2012While his 2010 solo debut Mshini Wam (translated as Bring Me My Machine Gun) was promising in a guided-by-M.I.A. kind of way, Father Creeper is downright epic.
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Q MagazineApr 25, 2012Kwaito beats and highlife guitars mesh with hip hop and dubstep, while love songs crash into mordant political satire. [May 2012, p.102]
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MojoMar 23, 2012[An] equally engaged, energised follow-up [to 2010's Mshini Wam].[Apr 2012, p.94]
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Mar 22, 2012The compelling collision of a pop sensibility with organic guitar riffs, dystopian digitalism and sharp wordplay plays out like the score to a musical set in 2012 Soweto.
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Mar 22, 2012Spoek makes the "hard truths" sound like "real talk" while putting some of the world's most innovative rebel music underneath.
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Mar 19, 2012It's a blistering, at times thoughtful, scattergun grab-bag of magpie musical styles and broken beat rhymes that somehow hangs together with irrepressible energy and invention.
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Mar 14, 2012If this is his starting point, his future seems limitless.
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Mar 14, 2012Spoek Mathambo's mixture of rapid rhymes and genre-melding combining thrillingly.
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Mar 14, 2012Mathambo is both voracious and omnivorous. This leads to a diverse and exciting listen.
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Mar 14, 2012The result isn't a fluid hybrid or warm fusion, but something colder and more uncomfortable and ultimately more intriguing.
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Mar 14, 2012Sometimes, as on "Let Them Talk", the blend is finger-snappingly fluent, but more often it is deliberately disjointed to match Mathambo's fragmented tales of township life.
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Jul 27, 2012The album is certainly worth a spin for any music enthusiast who wants to further expand their already-eclectic listening tastes.
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Mar 28, 2012Mathambo leaps about on a hotplate of styles, rarely dwelling on a groove for long. Move with him, though, because it's worth the breakneck effort.
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UncutMar 16, 2012It's the most potent sound to come out of South Africa since DJ Mujava's '08 left-field hit on Warp with "Township Funk." [Apr 2012, p.82]
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Mar 14, 2012A nervy urgency courses through all of the album's experimental tangents.
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Mar 14, 2012There are too many ebbs and flows, highs and lows, for this to be a great album, but one has to credit Spoek and Sub Pop for having the courage of their convictions, and trust in one another, to release such a genre defying album.
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Mar 14, 2012Father Creeper is his greatest achievement thus far, succeeding, if nothing else, as demanding listeners to enter his warped headspace.
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Mar 14, 2012It's got piles of ideas, some biting M.I.A.-style hooks, and all the grimy vibrancy of a night out in Soweto.
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Mar 15, 2012We've heard polychromatic African skitter-pop on American indie labels before, but never this naturalistic.
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