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Nothing Great About Britain

by slowthai

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rochelle219 This is one of those albums that jumps out of the bushes in the middle of the day and drags you all the way down to the core of the earth. And once you're down there, nothing else matters except playing Doorman again and again at full volume. Favorite track: Doorman.
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Rich Hims Justifiably vitriolic in a broken country Favorite track: Nothing Great About Britain.
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darian troy Dopest delivery in the game right now imo. Wild flows and schemes, and fire beats throughout. DANG! mustve listened 20 times before realizing that it might be on bandcamp, and then to find the VINYL?!!? DANGG! one of my fav albums of all time Favorite track: Gorgeous.
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alvarfj Best rap of 2019, change my mind.

(Pro tip: you can't) Favorite track: Toaster.
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GERMZ / Fraud Astaire Infectious...

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Doorman 03:04
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Dead Leaves 02:48
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Gorgeous 04:15
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Crack 02:16
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Toaster 03:04
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Missing 02:20
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about

slowthai knew the title of his album long before he wrote a single bar of it. He knew he wanted the record to speak candidly about his upbringing on the council estates of Northampton, and for it to advocate for community in a country increasingly mired in fear and insularity. Three years since the phrase first appeared in his breakout track ‘Jiggle’, Tyron Frampton presents his incendiary debut ‘Nothing Great About Britain’.

Harnessing the experiences of his challenging upbringing, slowthai doesn’t dwell in self-pity. From the album’s title track he sets about systematically dismantling the stereotypes of British culture, bating the Royals and lampooning the jingoistic bluster that has ultimately led to Brexit and a surge in nationalism. “Tea, biscuits, the roads: everything we associate with being British isn’t British,” he cries today. “What’s so great about Britain? The fact we were an empire based off of raping and pillaging and killing, and taking other people’s culture and making it our own?”

‘Nothing Great About Britain’ serves up a succession of candid snapshots of modern day British life; drugs, disaffection, depression and the threat of violence all loom in slowthai’s visceral verses, but so too does hope, love and defiance. Standing alongside righteous anger and hard truths, it’s this willingness to appear vulnerable that makes slowthai such a compelling storyteller, and this debut a vital cultural document, testament to the healing power of music. As slowthai himself explains, “Music to me is the biggest connector of people. It don’t matter what social circle you’re from, it bonds people across divides. And that’s why I do music: to bridge the gap and bring people together.”

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released May 17, 2019

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