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10.0
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The Guardian
On his debut album, the Northampton rapper swears at the Queen, dodges the far right and tries to pull a posh girl. It all adds up to a hilarious punk portrait of the nation
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9.0
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DIY
An icon in waiting
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9.0
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9.0 |
Clash
slowthai is the unexpected hero for the people we didn’t know we needed, but so many, justly deserve
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9.0
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9.0 |
God Is In The TV
The most thought provoking debut of the year will have you flipping and reflipping until you know it all off by heart like a grim prospectus of the realities of life out there once we finally come out of the other side
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9.0
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9.0 |
Loud And Quiet
The desire for slowthai is for Nothing Great About Britain to sit as a longstanding cautionary statement of ever-present corruption and rising inequalities that threaten to further the divide between the population
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8.5
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Northern Transmissions
slowthai finds himself as the poster boy for Brexit Britain and it’s a mantle that this street poet will no doubt relish
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8.4
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Pitchfork
The Bajan-British rapper’s debut tackles the UK’s pressing crises — a looming Brexit, class hostility, widening poverty — with great jokes and writerly candor
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8.0
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Q
From start to finish, an impressive piece of work. Print edition only
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8.0
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Mojo
Original, but with traces of early Dizzee, Rodney P and The Streets in Slowthai's savvy grime-punk. Print edition only
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8.0
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NME
The Northampton rapper's unique debut album is authentic and honest in all its garish glory, an indication of the sprawling possible paths for his career to grow into
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8.0
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The Line Of Best Fit
It’s at times a brutal listen, but hidden between the hard knocks is the sound of a charismatic young artist who knows he’s making a debut album to remember
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8.0
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The Observer
What lingers is the beguiling honesty beneath the fury, and the thrill that he’ll get even better, given time
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8.0
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Evening Standard
An artist whose voice will transcend divisions
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7.0
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7.0 |
Uncut
It's the stories of grind under dour circumstance, such as "Grow Up" featuring Birmingham MC Jaykae, that shine the brightest. Print edition only
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7.0
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7.0 |
The Quietus
There are myriad pitfalls to an ostensibly political album, but Slowthai traffics in enough emotional honesty and genuinely mercurial songwriting to dodge the trap doors
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6.0
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6.0 |
Spectrum Culture
Nothing Great About Britain is great at expressing a dizzying sort of (anti-)national pride, but the LP never quite puts its finger on new and newly inclusive ways of reimagining the nation
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6.0
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6.0 |
The FT
These tracks are diverting but not hard-hitting: the social commentary is milder than expected
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4.0
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4.0 |
musicOMH
A record that reveals the whirlwind of hype around Slowthai to be not much more than invisible garments on an arrogant emperor
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