Seeing one of the grittiest MCs around team up with a producer like Mura Masa normally equals a shining beat being added to an otherwise dirty prospect. But in ‘Doorman’, the follow-up to last month’s ‘Rainbows’, Mura Masa actually points slowthai toward some roughnecked guitars and a buzz so deep that it would scare a chainsaw or two.
It’s modern Britain on a Friday night and all the old favourites are here: cigarettes, unrequited love, lust, doormen, violence and drugs. But with the addition of slowthai to this otherwise normal weekend scene the extra cut-throat repression of the class system is added to the pot.
In a press release,