Killian Fox 

Spoek Mathambo: Father Creeper – review

The South African singer raids western styles for this thrillingly disjointed soundtrack to township life, says Killian Fox
  
  


As western artists raid increasingly obscure African genres, it's fascinating to hear what comes about when the direction is reversed. On his second album, Spoek Mathambo, a South African singer-producer, ransacks metal, electro, crunk and kwaito (a slowed-down Johannesburg version of house music) to create a thrilling meltdown of global styles. Sometimes, as on "Let Them Talk", the blend is finger-snappingly fluent, but more often it is deliberately disjointed to match Mathambo's fragmented tales of township life, on the likes of the excellent "Dog to Bone".

 

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