“It’s early days yet, but Smiling With No Teeth might be the best debut album of the year. The first full-length from Canberra’s Genesis Owusu, Smiling… is a thrilling introduction. Wildly ambitious in scope, there are moments where it snaps into industrial grooves worthy of Trent Reznor, and others where Owusu transforms into an Aussie D’Angelo. His collaboration with Kirin J Callinan, ‘Drown’, s”
“Smiling With No Teeth finds Genesis Owusu perfectly balancing style with substance”
“Genesis Owusu's full-length debut is impressive, occasionally even overambitious.”
“Genesis Owusu’s debut, ‘Smiling With No Teeth’, is Art with a capital ‘A’. He follows Kanye West and Solange Knowles in presenting an ambitious concept album with a cerebral theme and experimental sonics, defined by the auteur’s curation – rapping, singing and directing. ‘Smiling’ isn’t ‘Australian hip-hop’ as you know it: Genesis’ avant-funk pushes boundaries and amplifies individualism and free ”
