- Mon, 2011-05-09 10:56
Between them, Styly Cee and Cappo have been making hip hop for a good few decades. Straight out of Nottingham, they’ve long been a part of the local scene there and the underground scene nationally; Styly working under a variety of different guises (perhaps best known as one half of Lost Islands and the mastermind behind the misanthropic rhymer Pitman) and Cappo splitting his time between solo work and a wide range of collaborations, including The Herbaliser and Endemic. They’ve worked together on a number of occasions, most recently on 2008’s raved-about H-Bomb EP, and they’re back together now for their new album The Fallout, due for release on June 6th.
The first single to be taken from the album is its title track, The Fallout, and much as they did on the H-Bomb EP, the pair opt for an old-school eighties aesthetic. Styly’s instrumental is a classic funky-soul break-loop, pierced periodically by staccato trumpet blasts and clipped bass riffs and dressed with atmospheric sounds of cheering crowds and snippets of commentary. Cappo’s words are delivered in his usual gruff flow, the essential message of the track being that Cappo and Styly are the best of the best, and that people better recognise that fact.
It’s a belligerent welcoming fanfare for an album that promises to be pure no-nonsense hip hop from two artists who know what that means better than most.
