Product Description

'Angles' is the debut album from London based duo Dan Le Sac and Scroobius Pip. Mixing all styles of musical genres, from hip hop, soul, dance and RnB with their own intelligent and humourous slant, they provide a thought provoking and sometimes satirical look at modern life. This is a bold and intriguing first album. Includes the singles 'Thou Shalt AlwaysKill' and 'The Beat That My Heart Skipped'.

Track Listing

1. Beat That My Heart Skipped
2. Development
3. Look For The Woman
4. Rapper's Battle
5. Tommy C
6. Fixed
7. Angles
8. Letter From God To Man
9. Magician's Assistant
10. Back From Hell
11. Thou Shalt Always Kill
12. Waiting For The Beat To Kick In
13. Reading My Dreams

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1535 in Music
• Released on: 2008-05-12
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Enhanced

Customer Reviews

Interesting!
These guys are great, first got into them through seeing them live and have seen them a further three times since. This album is cool and well worth buying but if you want the full experience go watch the live show.....

It should be brilliant, but....
Ok, where to start? Well let's take this in two part;
Lyrically, this album is genius. There are stories both serious, yet heart warming, and prompts further thought. Seriously, this should be winning awards.

Musically... I have no idea what to make of it. Some is pretty good, but a lot is not mixed properly, and jars with the flow of the vocals with semi hip-hop, electro beats that sound pretty unrefined almost as if they have been lifted from an 8 yr old sampler CD of 80's noises.

Still, for a first effort this pretty good, and is carried but the lyricist.

I hope the subsequent efforts are better balanced.

The only rapper worth listening to at the moment
A genuine breath of fresh air against the British hip-hop and grime scenes that have gone right up their own backsides in an orgy of self-congratulation and vanity.

Scroobius Pip's lyrics are insightful, thoughtful, and intelligent, yet still catchy. He talks about himself in honest terms and is happy not to be the centre of attention as well. He graciously namechecks a few other respected rappers like Mos Def but ploughs his own furrow and is one of the only rappers at the moment who is actually worth listening to.

The music's slick as well, clever and subtle use of samples. If I had one criticism, it would be that because the lyrics are the centrepiece of the album, sometimes the music takes too much of a back-seat and becomes a bit repetitive. It means that you'll only really enjoy listening to this album if you're REALLY listening to it, it doesn't really work as background music, partly because the lyrics are too angry and intense. That's the perhaps weak reason why I'm giving it 4/5 instead of 5/5, because the best albums work both when you're totally focussed on them and when you're hardly listening to them.