Hoodies All Summer
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CRITIC REVIEWS
100
Hoodies All Summer is the album that grime has been crying out for, an audacious state-of-the-nation address from one of its most articulate lyricists.
100
Kano may seem as introverted as he was when Ghetts first met him, but he truly shines as an observer, letting his music do the talking. As a result, it’s his most mature, deafening, and profound album yet.
95
Hoodies All Summer is an exceptional achievement, proving once again that Kano is one of the UK’s most versatile, thoughtful and talented voices.
90
Hoodies All Summer wants you to be angry, because if anything’s going to change we all need to be.
90
Each track is strikingly vivid, and several are accompanied with snippets of speech, as if they are intended to be experienced as intimate documentaries. Kano has taken the central themes from his last musical outing – joy and trauma, the clash of solidarity and claustrophobia of living in a close-knit community – and delved yet deeper.
90
Is the best rap/rap-adjacent album of the year? It's definitely a contender. Is it the most important album of the year? Probably. Should you be listening to it right now? Without question.
80
It’s not as if Kano’s position as one of the Top Boys of an energised UK grime and rap scene needed any further cementing, though ‘Hoodies All Summer’ has done exactly that.
80
You might argue that grime’s tinny immediacy is blunted by maturity and high production values, but Kano’s state-of-the-nation address is both lush and desolate.
80
Thoroughly inspired as well as creative, Hoodies All Summer is arguably the best work of Kano's career.
80
The true powers of this album shine through as he examines our current splintered society; Kano holds the rhyme and reason to encapsulate it and possesses the angst to make it hit home.
60
He is yet ... to enjoy a mainstream moment like those had recently by Stormzy and Skepta. The reflective, ambitious Hoodies All Summer isn’t likely to change that, but it will cement his reputation as one of grime’s wisest truth-tellers.
Shoot I was excited about this after first listen but the more I listen the less I like this. It's a pretty choppy, stale experience with only a couple actually good tracks.
Kano certainly seems focused on flaunting his rapping ability more than his songwriting skill on this one, and that rapping ability is present for sure. There's just a lot of annoying pop tendencies on this that drag it down a little. Skepta, Giggs and Kano have all been shown up by Slowthai and Little Simz this year in grime. The oldheads are lagging behind!
I suppose Dave evens things out though, sorry Dave.
I suppose Dave evens things out though, sorry Dave.
Track List
- Free Years Later
- Good Youtes Walk Amongst Evil
- Trouble
- Pan-Fried (feat. Kojo Funds)
- Can't Hold We Down (feat. Popcaan)
- Teardrops
- Bang Down Your Door
- Got My Brandy, Got My Beats (feat. Lil Silva)
- Class of Deja (feat. D Double E & Ghetts)
- SYM
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Added on: August 4, 2019
