Dave and Central Cee by Andrew Timms
Dave and Central Cee’s video was filmed in the south of France and London with Nigerian-born artist Slawn.
Dave and Central Cee have shared their maiden collaborative track Sprinter.
It’s the first release from Dave this year, continuing on from the Starlight and My 24th Birthday cuts which have kept the new music flowing since 2021’s studio album We’re All Alone In This Together:
“Like the ideas it contains, this is a complex and multi-faceted record, one which takes repeated listens and, at over an hour long, demands a level of commitment,” our review reads. “Amongst the numerous collaborators is, perhaps surprisingly, James Blake, Both Sides Of A Smile flipping to a weird, skeletal gospel from an opposite side built on a chassis of fragile R&B. It works, somehow.”
It’s a criticism though that parts for big names are sometimes phoned in with the return of a co-production credit, but it’s one that’s headed off here smartly; the jazzy, Jamaican flavours of the WizKid-featuring System a chilled-out safe space, whilst Snoh Allegra helps carve out yet another flawlessly executed musical sidestep on Law Of Attraction’s sophisticated pop.
“It’s a mood, but a brief one. There are just as many conflicts here as guards being dropped, juxtaposed opener We’re All Alone finding the wary protagonist guilty about what he takes from a life even his circle can’t trust, a shopping list of sins that includes pausing to steer a potential suicide towards answers that don’t fit any problem.”
