Example - What We Made

It comes as some surprise to learn that this album is the work of one man, so full-on does it sound. The toughness of the music is offset well by the street poetry lyrics. There's an obvious hunger at work here, both to succeed and to get the point across. With rhymes rolled over a nice fat backing bassline accompanied by a throbbing horn section being a good summation of the album's overall sound, it flows together very well, sweeping you up as it does so. This explains why its lyrics on growing up, pain, etc, are so dark and sensual. Example's background as a garage MC shows through here, in his rigorous rounding up of all the disparate sounds into a coherent whole - all of which makes for naggingly addictive listening. [Jonathan Robert Muirhead]