Chroniclers & renovator 1

The Young Fathers is three young Englishmen, some Liberian, - Ghanaian and Nigerian descent who have made it their task to condense the history of black music new and provided with fresh, own ideas. Your home but is the Hip Hop. In Dead there the Young Fathers to hear for the first time the full distance of an album, after the first two, simply Tape One and Two Tape titled EP`s paved the way. This hybrid of hip hop, gospel, soul and gloomy electronics has much hit potential, aimed entirely at the general public from, but is varied and always knows to surprise. Alone the opening track No Way jumps in less than three minutes of cool Kopfnicker beats to melodic gospel choirs until it discharges to the end in almost repetitive, noisigen crash. Representative is this explosion at the beginning but only slightly. Dead is with its many overlaps theoretically always closer to the crossover, as the Hip Hop and therefore closer to Gnarls Barkley than on A Tribe Called Quest. But who knows, maybe they scratch at some point even the level of albums like Low End Theory and are just not the one-hit wonder. The Mercury Music Prize, they have already. If you want to do is hope that this will remain an empty promise.