Pa Salieu: Send Them to Coventry

i like the Headie One album well enough but it feels very slight compared to this one

headie's alb was somehow both slight and overlong, with great moments spliced in (mostly the drill tracks and the more playful moments like the aitch collab)

his gang ep w/ fred again, on the other hand, is the only competition with salieu's latest when it comes to visceral, cohesive sonic experiences in uk rap.

That Gang EP was awesome. “Charades” is one of my favourite songs of the year and the Jamie xx collab actually worked really well

such an addictive album is this, lots of ear-worms on it - as they say.

lol just played Betty 3 times in a row

might as well go

BOOM NO WARNIN'

on here again instead of Blue Saturday

i'm evangelizing this thing

Everyone otm, this guy rules.

yep

i gotta say to voodoo i thought GANG was the Headie album, missed out on the full thing, got to catch up

there's not much on it that sounds like gang, it's a real major label debut kind of thing with features from future, skepta, etc. there are some great moments woven throughout, but it is a bit unwieldy.

only got around to this last week, but I'm loving it.
what *is* that 80s sound on "Active" tho? thought it might be a sample, but apparently not.

i completely missed this thread but yeah this album is fantastic. manages to cover so much ground in a pretty short time. i do love how it finally goes full on summery afroswing at the end with "energy" after kind of teasing that direction amongst all the bleaker sounds

hadn't heard "bang out" until now but it's fantastic too

does anyone know which david sylvian or japan track is sampled on "betty"?

I do not, but that reminds me I’ve been meaning to mention that after NV said he heard Tricky in this, I couldn’t stop hearing it. This might be my aoty

I don't know either, but you could ask Mixmag, they seem to know what's what:

You can feel the diasporic influences pulsing through Pa Salieu’s songs. He recently explored the Black-British experience in his drill cut ‘Bang Out’. “I come from a place where feds label you gang-related / sorry if you look like me, somehow you’re just gang-related” he spits over a lively beat which samples the song ‘Japan’ by 80s indie pop band Ghosts.

(this piece has only been up for six months now)

winner of the BBC Sound of 2021!

well deserved but maybe a little unfair since he's already released a critically acclaimed mixtape that's an album in all but name, that's much more fully formed than most sound of nominees are

he was on jimmy fallon last night?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLdQI7KAYl8

Love it, he deserves the exposure

Loving Energy

great, performance too, with those pitbulls and the fuzzy red knife lady haha

much more lively and creative than, say, playboi carti's performance from the other night

Can't remember if it was here or another thread where someone told me I should give him a try despite my general antipathy toward the heavy accent on a lot of grime and drill emerging from the UK, and I finally downloaded this record...fucking brilliant stuff, love it!

it’s a fantastic album. one of my favourites from last year.

Truly— been bopping it today whilst doing arduous editing work, and its been excellent

very happy you like this, but honestly far more interested to hear how you do editing while listening to music? I can't even do instrumental stuff lately

that aside, I listened to this again recently after a little time away and it's really deep sonically (not just bass-heavy, I mean lots of layers). I don't have a problem with accents in grime etc., but I do think the way Salieu uses his accent is super musical and one of my favorite aspects of the album

It's so so good. I find with this kind of thing I can generally appreciate it on a track by track basis but I can listen to this whole album without feeling exhausted and usually Judy want to put it straight back on again

Just, not Judy. This phone

rob, at the moment, I'm doing a lot of medical editing and proofing work. Doing word-for-words and fixing references and whatnot just doesn't require much in terms of concentration, at least in my world.

(For this particular record, I was doing a word-for-word of a powerpoint with 140 slides lol)

this album's secret is that it is so breezy and likeable

it's one of those - hard to define - sets where everything bangs and is perfect, just put together as an amazing set

and the closing track is so gorgeous, makes you wanna play it over

how you do editing while listening to music?

Not table, obv., but I can scarcely get any work done without music playing in the background, it's pathological. I belatedly got into metal while writing my thesis – it was just about the only thing that kept me going.

More to the point: Pa Salieu rules.

I do not do any other writing or editing to music, absent emails and such.

But for the gig I'm working? Whatever, I'm Freelance and getting paid an absurd sum to fact check references and make sure things are in their right place before they go live or to print. It is so easy and boring that if I didn't listen to music, I'd fall asleep

Also Pa Salieu rules, and 'Energy' really does make one want to go back and listen to the whole thing again

it's not complicated, if you listen to Send Them to Cov you'll get it

the more of everbody that get into this

so perfect

convo to be had about blah blah blah elsewhere

but it's spectacularly perfect

the way it balances coldness and warmth is so good

Many otm posts

The album has been growing massively on me as well. I love the dancehall influence on this, right there from futuristic Block Boy.

new song!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6Jg1jw9X7g

drums sound incredible

fantastic stuff

Loving it, he really does pick beats with the best drums

Send Them To Coventry is coming out on vinyl for RSD I think

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09tzW80FM8U

cool performance from a few months ago

Glidin' rules

omygod this is so good

wwwwow fuckin amazing

Afrikan Rebel EP is out today & it's excellent

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JT-0NwoADO0