We're New Here (2011)

“Art has always been built on the foundations of the art that came before it, but we live in a particularly fruitful era for homage, when mash-ups and remixes litter the trail of virtually any album that gets released. An what you do with the sounds that are already there.‘We’re New Here’ certainly isn’t chaff, but it’s not clear what Jamie Smith, producer for The xx, is accomplishing with it, either. What stands out are the hip-hop beats and spacey, drifting dubstep that curls around spoken word pieces on tracks like the titular “I’m New Here”. It was one of the standout tracks on Scott-Heron’s album. Judging the songs on their own, Scott-Heron’s presence fades into the background, becoming another instrument for Smith to mix and play with in the studio. You can lose yourself in tracks like “My Cloud” and “NY is Killing Me” well enough, even if you might not find yourself wanting to return to them as often as you might “I’m New Here”. (Treble Media)

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