Song(s) of the Day # 1,977 Quelle Chris

One of the most interesting Hip Hop albums I've heard for a long time, Quelle Chris Guns, (released a few months back), is a record that examines American gun culture without glorifying it for a single momemt, enough to rarify it in itself. The conclusions it comes to are pretty depressing but the music itself isn't for a moment.

Satirising the music culture that monetises this stuff, the vicious circles that drive the American car down its long highway, as well as the society and politics that perpetuate all the mindless and brutal and often quite unecessary and avoidable violence.

With all of the menace and claustrophobic tension you could ever want from this kind of thing while all the while what's going on is craftsmanship and microscopic scrutiny rather than pure massacre, Guns is one of the smartest records you'll hear this year.