“House music, and the glorious tension between its on-beat and its syncopated elements, has long been a sound associated with South Africa. From the languorous tempos of sample-heavy kwaito, a subgenre established in post-apartheid townships in Johannesburg, to the Pretorian call-and-response of diBacardi, and the adrenalised polyrhythms of gqom – a raw, bass-heavy recapitulation of kwaito, founded”
“The teenage South African duo build the lean rhythms and jazzy melodies of amapiano into a sprawling debut suffused with dynamic energy and tantalizing uncertainty.”
