Dizzee Rascal's Dirtee Cash

Dizzee Rascal's Dirtee Cash

He’s collaborated with some of the most influential people in pop; Lily Allen, Armand Van Helden and Alex Turner (Arctic Monkeys) to create some alternative hip-hop/pop classics, most notably ‘Dance Wiv Me’ in which he teamed up with Calvin Harris. Dizzee Rascal always seems to be a little ahead of the trends, creating something a little unlike anything of the time and he has done that again with his newest single ‘Dirtee Cash’.

Don’t be suprised if the first time you hear it you’re not a fan, I wasn’t either. Imagine you’re back in the early 90’s and ’Dirtee Cash’ wouldn’t have seemed out of place at all, yet compared to the chart successes of JLS and Cheryl Cole, it just seems a little too much out of touch with now. The more soulful featured female vocal just makes it even more retro along with the looped sample of a Stevie V hit of the same name.

In comparison to the rest of Dizzee’s album, its a gem, along with singles already released from the album and still should appeal to the hip-hop dance niche that he had created with the most previous chart-toppers.

The Holloways Are Back With 'No Smoke, No Mirrors'

Happy-go-lucky indie pop band, The Holloways have come back three years after ‘So, This Is Great Britain?’ with follow up album ‘No Smoke, No Mirrors’. In these three years the band have seemed to have gone through some changes. The image has changed, with them ditching the grubby vests and knit hats for a more sophisticated blazer and cardigan look.

Besides this shift in image there has been a shift in sounds with the fiddle that was so prominent in the first album sounding more discreet than before and everything just sounding more mature. As the fans have grown up so have the Holloways, the album is not about pulling girls or the fact ‘there’s nothing for the kids to do today’.

So the album. They’ve stuck by the feel good music (despire they tend to sing about how crap something is) yet have lost there way a little way when it comes to what to write about maybe. Yes, everyone can relate to that moment you lose your tv remote (‘Public Service Broadcast’) and we are all familiar with those kids who sit at the back of the bus like they own it (‘On The Bus’) yet thats not what people want to hear about. Their album has been released around the same time as the likes of Jamie T and just before the Editors and it is in no way comparable. Lyrically and musically weak and appealing to a niche that is minuscule.