Slowthai – Nothing Great About Britain (2019)

June 3, 2021

It was the announcement of Slowthai’s second record that made me fucking stop and realise just how goddamn fast time is going these days, especially in lockdown life. Here it is then, my somewhat late quick entry for the artist’s cheeky debut. He’s right though, there ain’t much great about Britain, at least not urban Britain, and that disgust, angst and attitude is distilled entirely into the record itself. It’s like The Streets’ Original Pirate Material but for a new generation of worse-off, disillusioned youth. Says a lot about the state of life, really. Fucking great album.