Travelling Onwards... 5/5
Rap and Hip Hop are genres I refer to as marmite genres–you either love it or hate it. For me, I find it monotonous and usually find it blaring out of Radio One amongst most other pieces that generally aren’t worth the steam of a freshly laid dog turd. However, the discovery of Yeovil based rapper Josh Frankpitt has different ideas on his mind. Under the alias of the rather strange name ‘Plodge’, my view on rap music may have just changed.
The 5 track EP entitled “Onwards” clocks up to about roughly 14 minutes, with the neat subliminal message of moving on in life. The track that appeals to me is the second track with the haunting violin samples which involve the local music scene and hardship it takes to make your name on it, which is the literal life story of the 3 months of the existence of Keith’s reviews. Whilst the influences are rather sporadic with the original rap samples to the Drum and Bass sections of the title track “Onwards” and “Our Lives”, which has the infectious party atmosphere surrounding it which contains the fantastic guest vocals of Cyan Clements. If this EP were to have a single, this song has to be the one. The strange boost from laid back rap to Drum and Bass continues to “When it’s over, it’s game over”, which has the pop laid hooks and the catchy vocals to the infectious keyboard/synth sections the truly wants to make you dance.
A truly worthy EP of a small time Yeovil rapper, but one to defiantly make Plodge’s mark on the music scene.
http://www.facebook.com/#!/Plodge.Music
The 5 track EP entitled “Onwards” clocks up to about roughly 14 minutes, with the neat subliminal message of moving on in life. The track that appeals to me is the second track with the haunting violin samples which involve the local music scene and hardship it takes to make your name on it, which is the literal life story of the 3 months of the existence of Keith’s reviews. Whilst the influences are rather sporadic with the original rap samples to the Drum and Bass sections of the title track “Onwards” and “Our Lives”, which has the infectious party atmosphere surrounding it which contains the fantastic guest vocals of Cyan Clements. If this EP were to have a single, this song has to be the one. The strange boost from laid back rap to Drum and Bass continues to “When it’s over, it’s game over”, which has the pop laid hooks and the catchy vocals to the infectious keyboard/synth sections the truly wants to make you dance.
A truly worthy EP of a small time Yeovil rapper, but one to defiantly make Plodge’s mark on the music scene.
http://www.facebook.com/#!/Plodge.Music