The Black Milk Collective

Currently, the U.K is awash with quality hip hop and garage acts, many of which are genuinely pushing all kinds of barriers – both musically and culturally. Dizzee Rascal is the most recent to break the commercial mould with his charged garage offerings. Creating a genre defining image born from English city life, the complexity of lyrics, production and so on is such, that you wonder if a lot of the U.S rap mega stars/ U.S hip hop loving public would even get the U.K slant on it all?

The Black Milk Collective is a pleasantly different thing all together. Hailing from Essex, these guys are not as intense or dirty sounding as most of the current U.K crop. MC Scott Irving (formerly of the New Wave Poets) is very clean and crisp with his vocal delivery and seems to draw on 'Daisy Age' influences in his style. 'Push it along' vaguely springs to mind when 'The Pretender' starts and I wonder if Scott is purposely leaning towards a millennium – 'old school' lyrical slant? Tight production here as well, along with some subtle beats and cuts makes for this to be a credible debut single.

The Black Milk Collective have bravely offered us a peaceful slice of their raw talents and along with my 3 stars I am going throw in a leather Africa medallion for luck!

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