6.0
Avg Score
2
Opinions
#44,190
All Time
9
Tracks
“Doncaster experimentalist Skinny Pelembe is precisely the type of act that should thrive in our streaming age, when listeners enjoy genre-hopping more than ever. Brought up imbibing Afrobeat, bossa nova, rock, dub, country, hip-hop and more, he has never shied away from decanting everything he has absorbed into his music. It’s just that, as with his 2019 debut, Dreaming Is Dead Now, he can’t quite”
“2019’s Dreaming Is Dead Now was a messy debut offering from Skinny Pelembe, and at best, a compelling collection of indie rock, folk and hip-hop. However, it felt as though we didn’t get to know Pelembe too well. On that record, his voice took an auditory backseat, rendering him a nebulous shadow whispering mysteries rather than someone trying to convey something meaningful. Thankfully, on Hardly ”