MC Almond Milk – Full Day, Cool Times
While Full Day, Cool Times is easily the darkest record James Scott has produced, the MC's humour and inventiveness shines through
Ageing is inevitable. Equally, nostalgia for the past quite often affects all of us too. We all reach certain points in our life where we lament missed opportunities, past mistakes and wonder "just where on earth are we going?"
This is where we find MC Almond Milk, aka James Scott (previously of Conquering Animal Sound and his Jonnie Common collaboration CARBS), on his latest record Full Day, Cool Times. Over the years, Scott has established himself as one of Glasgow's most enigmatic musicians, and since moving into rap music has established a healthy sense of humour. Full Day, Cool Times is easily the darkest record Scott has produced, and sees him fairly candidly consider his life up until now and going forward. If it wasn't for his humour and inventiveness when writing one could be slightly overwhelmed by the sheer number of ruminations.
Thankfully, Scott speaks honestly and occasionally brutally about life's myriad hopes and disappointments on tracks such as the Why?-inspired 1995, the Fitter Happier-alluding Was Swept Away, I Think That Always Happens and the dark Black Coffee (featuring Julian Corrie of Miaoux Miaoux and, now, Franz Ferdinand). That said, Me IRL closes on a more positive note about creating art out of love, even if Pics or it Didn't Happen leaves things on an uneasy climax.
Listen to: 1995, Lost in Drakies, Black Coffee