Wednesday 1 April 2009

Goldie Lookin' Chain - ASBO4Life

(AU magazine, April 2009)

Like Marmite for eardrums, the fourth album from the Newport rappers isn’t going to turn the heads of those dubious of their appeal. Of these 14 tracks, none of them is ‘Guns Don’t Kill People, Rappers Do’, but they keep on an even keel. Mirth-inducing on ‘Everybody Is A DJ’ (sample lyric: “Oh, mate, do you know ‘Synth and Strings’ / Oh, mate, have you got ‘Eye Of The Tiger’?”), the dropout stoner schtick wears by the time ‘Nothing Ever Happens’ arrives. The fact remains that GLC are a comedy band and, with four albums under their belts, they’re officially flogging a dead horse.

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