Summary from 9 ratings
On Rate.fm, fans have rated Kode9’s catalog across 20 albums from 9 opinions, with an overall average of 7.5/10. The top-rated Kode9 album is Nothing (2015) with a 7.6/10 average from 4 ratings, followed by Black Sun / 2 Far Gone - Single and Killing Season EP. The discography on Rate.fm spans 2009 to 2022. Xingfu Lu ranks as the highest-rated Kode9 song on Rate.fm with a 7.1/10 average.
Killing Season EP
“The recent passing of Hyperdub vocalist, rapper, and poet Stephen Gordon, aka Spaceape, was a saddening shock. The five-song EP Killing Season, his last work with Hyperdub boss Kode9, addresses his physical condition and his ways of not only coping with cancer, but extrapolating his own state of health to the sense of unease and trepidation that everybody stares down sooner or later.”
Nothing
“Kode9 delivers a very sad, very compelling stare into the void with Nothing. Perhaps his most compelling work, it starts from scratch, sometimes building to footwork but often bleeding into something spare and serene. Fully crafted in the wake of his music partner Spaceape's death, there are moments of memory and beauty woven into this varied, unique album.”
Escapology
“It’s 30 degrees in London as the new Kode9 album tumbles from my speakers, as dense, pungent and disorientating as the treacly air outside. With every available window as wide open as possible, the thrum of the city is never entirely drowned out by the record itself, instead providing a scratchy, fume-heavy frame for the album’s restless soundscape. It’s probably not the optimum sonic hygiene for ”