Roots Manuva - Facety 2:11

Roots Manuva - Facety 2:11Rodney Smith is arguably the greatest rapper ever to emerge from British shores and after two years locked in the studio brewing up brand new music, he returns now with Facety, a stunning single produced by fellow UK maverick Four Tet. Pre order on 12" & digital download from Big Dada iTunes Facety is patois slang for someone being rude a barefaced cheek referenced by the insistent, cockney rhyming lyrical snip boat race that makes up the chorus.

And I got to listen to it over a dozen times

8th on Counter Records (a Ninja Tune imprint)

the birds look back into the cage they once inhabited

But to tap into a unique aesthetic

Bicep and TSHA

seen different angles of and it’s been a bit inspirational - the drinking

A bold and genre-less approach to electronic music-making has seen him land releases across premier underground labels like Crosstown Rebels and Greco-Roman

Michael McDonald

as the emotional landscape shifts from harrowing

everything has come together and the record is here

Previous support has come from the likes of Pitchfork - who hailed his talent for creating “something that ’70s and ’80s electro-funk auteurs like Kraftwerk

signify markers of growth