The left field, openly abrasive uk hip hop collective Young Echo's debut is one of the stranger hip hop projects I've heard in recent time. There's really not a lot of many tracks with vocals here, let alone rapping. And when an mc shows up, he's taking his time, almost bordering on spoken word spewing powerful and strange bars. The production is calm and deep, pulling sounds from the uk bass and dubstep/future garage scene. On the other tracks, the genres range from hypnotic ambient and ... read more