Head Space Daily Top Ten Albums Of 2015 - Number 9

9: YOUNG FATHERS – WHITE MEN ARE BLACK MEN TOO

This is a big step up from Young Fathers last album Dead, which won the Mercury Music Award 2014. It is far more musical and is delivered with greater confidence – as you would expect. There is a terrifically joyous, anarchic feel, as if the album is being thrown together on the fly. What really impresses me is the variety of the sound. It changes constantly, throwing up surprises and twists and turns. Where Dead could fall into the trap of being samey, with one truly stand out track, this follow up, with its unsettling tone, never lets you rest. Every tune has something going for it. This is a band and an album where the singing is not perfect, the music is not perfect (the drums often sound as if they are trying to catch up with the rest of the track) but it somehow works – perfectly. There is a message running through this album - as the title suggests – stirring up feeling of racial unity and divides in multicultural Britain and it is fitting that they will be supporting Massive Attack on their tour next year...

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Young Fathers - Shame