Slowthai playing Leeds Festival 2019 (Gary Mather for Live4ever)
slowthai has released a new track entitled ENEMY.
Containing some not-so-subtle references to his equally in-your-face behaviour at the NME Awards earlier this year, it comes almost exactly a year on from the release of his debut album Nothing Great About Britain; “It’s definitely fitting that where there is a person who gains respect by compassion and not the mis-use of power that figure is female; on Northampton’s Child Frampton’s mum is the hero, a role model depicted not in a landslide of sentiment, but against a starkly autobiographical depiction of temporary homelessness and domestic abuse,” Live4ever’s review reads.
“Opening up and showing weakness like that in the sometimes macho world in which urban music lives is a brave choice, one that backs up releasing work called Nothing Great About Britain and parodying the country’s rigid institutions, especially if you see them as being the problem not the solution.”
