This lot just won The Mercury Prize ( a UK award for best album released during the year). It was the first I'd heard of them. Curious, I had a listen. I could have chosen virtually any one of the numerous tracks I listened to. Every one sounded completely different from the one before. The most brilliant, intuitive, original music. The one obvious reference point was Massive Attack. Not because they sounded like them though there are occasional, obvious traces in terms of spirit. But because they recall what it felt like to hear their brilliant records first. Here's Alex Petridis from The Guardian:
'the artists Young Fathers most obviously recall are Massive Attack. The comparison isn't so much a sonic one, although there's vague hint of Blue Lines about the half-whispered vocals of Just Another Bullet, and Hangman's increasingly clammy, claustrophobic atmosphere is the kind of mood that Tricky might have conjured into existence on Maxinquaye, albeit by a different method. It's more the sense that, like Massive Attack 25 years ago, Young Fathers have quietly constructed a strange and intoxicating musical universe that feels entirely their own, while no one else was paying attention.'
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