Album Reviews
Three albums into his career, London rapper Dizzee Rascal still sounds
like a thug from a parallel universe: Maths and English is long on
dark, dense electro beats and frazzled techno, plus frantic-but-ballsy
rhymes that even Brits might have trouble parsing. It's nothing
particularly new for Dizzee, but he sounds more assured than ever, and like this
season of The Sopranos, Maths is a tense, uncomfortable prospect that
gets under your skin something fierce. Grimy bangers like "Sirens" --
which sounds like the Bomb Squad messing with a four-track and PlayStation
sound effects -- find Dizzee dropping rapid-fire syncopation with
Ginsu-knife precision, and the give-and-take between Dizzee's hyperconfident
Brit accent and Houston legends UGK's hyperconfident drawls on "Where's
da G's" makes for one of the best, weirdest hip-hop collabos so far
this year. "Sometimes I think this whole world's gone crazy!" Dizzee yelps
on "Excuse Me Please." Even if that's all he had to say, Maths would
sound pretty damn good.
(Posted: May 30, 2007)
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