Jehst - Mengi Bus Mix Tape
Jehst occasionally spits some very sharp dialogue, but it's just not good enough to redeem this album
Jehst is a London based UK hip-hop artist who has been doing the rounds for the better part of a decade. This is a compilation mixtape of rarities and b-sides. The constant self namechecks of 'Mengi Bus mix tape!' and the cringe-worthy and repetitive self-advertisement for coming releases and websites, flowing from song to song, seriously impairs the mix.
Add to this DJ IQ's abrupt mixing and cutting style, and the overall construction is seriously questionable. The songs themselves deserve better. Production and sampling on individual tracks is good, if a little flat and repetitive across its excessive track count, and Jehst occasionally spits some very sharp dialogue, but it's just not good enough to redeem this album. [Jack McFarlane]