Kano album sampler leaked

not to titchy, natasha bedingfield >>>>> most of those collabs

but ***THREE*** songs with fraser to smith?! you are too kind 679 A&R dept!

i meant fraser t smith.

"Dear Grime people, please stop making artist albums, its not worth it cos you wont sell any anyway and itll prob be a bit of a cock up etc
thanx"

this is still OTM.

i dont know what else we expect them to do though.

http://www.nme.com/images/thums/84_lethalbizzlemagebits_01.jpg

back in the day i said grindie will never die.

I'm confident that this Kano album will be worse than the Bizzle one, which is not very good to begin with

everyone but me seems to have heard the bizzle one

i haven't heard the bizzle album. this is deliberate

i have a special place in my heart for the bizzle.

this new album is so so shit.

tragically shit.

so it leaked?

i thnk the prob with kano doing more hip hop beats is that he doesnt really have dominant enough voice. he sort of gets lost. he needs more faster, syncopated beats to really fit right. thats just me though. ive been saying the same thing for about 50 years...

It didn't sound as bad as I thought (predicted on another thread in fact, I think) it might, given a cursory listen, but certainly not jumping out, and that Craig David teamup is just the pits

Me And My Microphone (Featuring Kate Nash)
Me And My Microphone (Featuring Kate Nash)
Me And My Microphone (Featuring Kate Nash)
Me And My Microphone (Featuring Kate Nash)
Me And My Microphone (Featuring Kate Nash)
Me And My Microphone (Featuring Kate Nash)

Is Kano going for the Radio 2 friendly version of grindie then?

Kano feat. Tom Chaplin - Broadway Market

Kano feat. Paul Potts - Who's The Real Winna?

Kano feat. Pinefox - Am I Ready To Be Heartbroken?

Can someone else who's heard it help me pinpoint what exactly it is about 140 Grime Street that doesn't quite work? I'm sure it must be something more than 'trying too hard' but I can't work out what.

Perhaps it is because Kano is an insufferable douchebag?

*haven't heard the album

It could be that the only decent Kano track ever was a nu-metal joint and he's steadfastly stayed away from that genre since? Maybe he should see what Disturbed are up to these days, collab w/them.

too monochromatic? it's a million light years better than what i was expecting though and the wiley track kills, so thumbs up.

No it's not that it's monochromatic, it's more that the beats sort of drag in a weird way and he's rubbish whenever he tries to slow down. Most of the production doesn't really feel propulsive enough so even the good verses have this running through quicksand feel.

reasons its a bit dull to me -
bit late in the day - this should have been what his debut was like (ie a grime-focused album)
kano sounds like hes doing it cos he has to, not cos he wants to, so some of it sounds a bit like an exercise hes really exerting himself to be interested in (and also really trying hard to sound hard)
the beats arent all that good, though they are grimier
kanos hooks are pretty rubbish and that slow flow of his that he uses on them has never sounded good, not even on mic check
he hasnt got much to say, not for a full album
the flow isnt what it used to be

only collabo i thought was good on there was the one with ghetto.

I'm no afficionado but I thought it was brilliant! Love the production (big spacey and bass-y like some UK halfway house between Deltron 3030 and the first Pendulum album, although that's probably gonna put everyone off).

Also big minus points for Mikey J for fumbling the Omar whistle, could have been so sinister and menacing but no, they cocked it up.

"hustler" is so dope

does the rest of the album sound like this

intrigued by lex's review in the guardian but everything that lex reviews in the guardian is 4 stars unless it's klaxons so im still holding out

Think it was Tim who dismissed the Tinchy album as merely competent and then went back to it a month or so later and go "wow!" Exactly the same thing happened to me with this album - think I just needed to get over it not being 14 versions of Ps and Qs.

And yes, the album does sound a lot like Hustler. The best track is the Davinche banger, I Like It, towards the end though. That and the Wiley one.

intrigued by lex's review in the guardian but everything that lex reviews in the guardian is 4 stars unless it's klaxons so im still holding out

read more of my reviews!! uhh i won't deny i was wavering between 3 and 4 stars for this though. it's 7/10 basically, as are so many others. like matt i went back to it recently and was pleased that it held up, esp 'hunting we will go'.

having spent a regrettable 6 minutes with the wiley album today (finally the album stevem's been threatening to make all these years) i was quite up for giving this a fair crack of the whip. unfortunately however my patriotism is not such that i will stand for a bunch of embarrassing americanisms unconvincingly delivered over fake runners beats. (i am a longtime respecter of mikey j's very competent orchestral gangsta but this is overkill. the wiley tune's kool.)

(and) i like it when kane says he finds ironing therapeutic though. me 2!! i even do my socks.

unless it's klaxons

or old rock artists making new electronic albums.

kano album is better than i remembered but the wiley collabo is still shit. the hook is lame and wileys verse sounds really half-hearted (plus it doesnt convince at all - wiley talking about how much money hes got and how many bottles of champers hes cracking open? whatever mate).

finally the album stevem's been threatening to make all these years

i only just saw this smack talk - pretty inexcusable!

'boys and girls' is still great is all i want to say

haha

girl u know its troo

those lazy crazy days of ilm getting excited about records coming out

i have a soft spot for kano because he was probably the only grime MC to namedrop my hometown

Kano rolls back into the spotlight in style rocking a fresh single, video, string of live dates, and with a new album on the horizon for 2010…

Kano’s new single ‘Rock N Roller’ (out 26th Oct) is a soaring slice of heavyweight urban electro-pop with rousing tweaked-out vocals and a disconcertingly catchy chorus.

Click here - http://tinyurl.com/KanoRockNRollerVideo - to view the video and hear the single. The promo is directed by Christian Holm-Glad whose previous credits include Calvin Harris’ ‘I’m Not Alone’ and Madcon’s ‘Beggin’.

Kano is also set to perform a series of unmissable university dates this autumn culminating in a hometown headline show at London’s Koko. The forthcoming gigs are listed below.

'Rock N Roller' provides listeners with an early taste of Kano’s as yet untitled fourth studio album, due out early next year. The record promises to be a significant milestone in the career of the London-born lyricist with production credits including: ghetto-pop duo Radioclit; Berlin’s electro-house upstart Boys Noize; purveyors of synthetic soul, Hot Chip; as well as long-term collaborators Mikey J and songwriter/producer Fraser T Smith.

a soaring slice of heavyweight urban electro-pop with rousing tweaked-out vocals and a disconcertingly catchy chorus

http://www.zasucks.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/1abandon_hope.jpg

Actually the idea of Kano working with Radioclit is pretty exciting. Hot Chip and Boys Noize less so.

i loved the last one (140 grime st) the first time i heard it, but it didn't do enough for me on subsequent listens. i'll have to give it another go.

i think hes still got it as an mc, he just makes sucky songs/picks bad beats. anyway, new album out soon -

1. 2 Left: Topic Of Discussion (produced by Boys Noize)

2. Get Wild ft Aidonia & Wiley (produced by Boys Noize)

3. iPod Generation (produced by Kano)

4. MAAD (produced by Kano & Fraser T Smith)

5. Spaceship (produced by Chase & Status)

6. Upside ft Michelle Breeze (produced by Craigie Dodds)

7. All + All Together ft Hot Chip (produced by Hot Chip)

8. Lady Killer ft Ghetts (produced by Hot Chip)

9. Bassment (produced by A13)

10. Crazy (produced by Boys Noize)

11. Slaves ft Why Why Peaches (produced by Craigie Dodds)

12. Jenga ft Vybz Kartel (produced by Boys Noize & Diplo)

13. Dark Days (produced by Craigie Dodds)

Christ almighty. That tracklist looks like the work of a man getting pretty much everything wrong.

"get wild" is actually ok, but oh my christ the rest of that track listing is not promising

production-wise what was once desperate pandering is now the ruling uk landscape; if kano can scrape together a bit of charisma from somewhere there's probably hits to be had i imagine. doubt it mind

i heard a song from this on the radio and it was so so bad

cred wise, hes doing the same as everyone else really, i just have a feeling kano wont know what to do with all these guests/pop & indie crossovers. again. curious to know what the hot chip collabos will be like. liked the last vybz kartel collabo kano did too (even if vybz made him look a bit weak) so that one could be ok.

It's actually Boys Noize who provoked the biggest eyeroll from me, you'd think they'd be able to split the difference between noisy electro and, well, grime, pretty well but I bet they can't. Also they produced the worst track on the Kelis album.

i don't recall offhand which one the boys noize/kelis one was but it def wasn't worse than "acapella"

anyway this is "get wild"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XR5EACKSVXw

like...6/10? 7/10 when it gets to the chorus