As a friend of the lead singer and a huge fan myself, I could not agree more!
For a band that has a career spanning 16 years and 5 studio albums, Skindred remain a far more obscure entity than they ought to be and it is certainly not because of a lack of talent. The Welsh band write music that borrows from a plethora of genres ranging from Metal, Reggae, Hip-Hop and Electronica which they have done to full effect in their latest offering, ‘Kill the Power’. The album sees them go overboard with experimentation. This, for the most part, produces some entertaining results.
The album kicks off with the title track which samples Cypress Hill as well as Kanye West’s “Power”. If one just listens to the verses of this song it would be easy to mistake it for a Hip-Hop tune but Skindred bring the rage in the chorus. “Ruling Force” is structurally similar to “Kill the Power” replacing the Hip-Hop verses with UK garage electronica…
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