Tell Them It's Winter

by Ed Scissor

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v 0 "Darkness breeds in this bed made of treason." Favorite track: TTIW.

Dimxsk Everything on this record is perfect. This is the type of rap that makes people take the genre more seriously as art and poetry.

Nic Brown Saints preserve us, I swear the temperature in my bedroom dropped 5° the moment the first notes of "Grandzeen" set my auditory nerve shivering, and a further 5° when Ed Scissor's poignant poetics entered the fray some 3 minutes later. "Tell Them It's Winter" is the hip-hop even the hip-hop media ignores; a doom-laden odyssey into urban darkness that shakes your heart and mind like a Mendelssohn opera with a T S Eliot-penned libretto. Producer Robin Legge really ought to change his nom de plume from Lamplighter to Lachrymator X such is his skill at manipulating musical melancholia and Ed ... well, much as I love playing vocab volleyball, I could never hope to hold a candle to his extraordinary iambics. High Focus had cemented its place as UK rap music's label of the year well before this hell-bound, heaven-scented work of genius arrived in our laps, but what scares me is that after 2016's avalanche of masterpieces, the only way for HF in the year to come, must surely be down. The good news is, I'm not a medium but with a roster that includes Onoe Caponoe, Jam Baxter, Ocean Wisdom and these two children from a galaxy far away, High Focus is an XXXXXXL. Watch them top the world in 2017. Favorite track: Week.

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1.	Grandzeen 03:30	info	buy track
2.	TTIW 05:39	info	buy track
3.	Week 05:28	info	buy track
4.	The Dust Don't Lay 06:35	info	buy track
5.	Any Infrastructure 04:17	info	buy track
6.	Hyper Ballad 04:03	info	buy track
7.	Light Round Here 08:11	info	buy track
8.	AFK 06:15	info	buy track
9.	Detours 10:50	info	buy track
10.	Many Made One 05:22	info	buy track

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released July 15, 2016

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