slowthai performing at the 2019 Pitchfork Paris Festival (Jessica Bartolini for Live4ever)
slowthai is streaming another new track.
After releasing ENEMY out of nowhere last weekend, MAGIC is the first example of slowthai’s work with producer Kenny Beats in Los Angeles at the start of this year; both tracks coming almost exactly 12 months on from 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.”
