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UK-Garage albums by a single artist can be counted on one hand (Artful Dodger, MJ Cole, Wookie), making the So Solid Crew's They Don't Know a welcome addition to this small but growing pantheon of urban UK music. The 30-member group's debut album is a hard, rough mixture of garage, drum and bass and hip-hop, far removed from the smoothness of MJ Cole or the sunny idealism of Lonyo or The Pied Piper. So Solid splay deep, dark beats for their in-your-face lyrics of their small army of MCs (Romeo, Asher D, Mac, to name just a few), creating an apocalyptic, heavy, sound of the street. So Solid's number 1 UK hit "21 Seconds"
UK-Garage albums by a single artist can be counted on one hand (Artful Dodger, MJ Cole, Wookie), making the So Solid Crew's They Don't Know a welcome addition to this small but growing pantheon of urban UK music. The 30-member group's debut album is a hard, rough mixture of garage, drum and bass and hip-hop, far removed from the smoothness of MJ Cole or the sunny idealism of Lonyo or The Pied Piper. So Solid splay deep, dark beats for their in-your-face lyrics of their small army of MCs (Romeo, Asher D, Mac, to name just a few), creating an apocalyptic, heavy, sound of the street. So Solid's number 1 UK hit "21 Seconds" is here in full as well as a (much sparser) remixed version of "Oh No", the track that would have been their first number one had it not been for a format mix up. They've actually left off quite a few of their best cuts. "Nasty", "Dangerous" and "That Feelin'" are all missing with only the hyper, apocalyptic "Woah" surviving from their "early days". But despite being the bright hopes of UK urban music there's still some dodgy tracks that betray the crew's relative inexperience (most are around 21, the oldest 26). The tacky "Ride Wid Us" uses the Knight Rider theme (Busta Rhymes did this to disastrous effect on "Fire it Up") and Skyla lacks any central idea. They Don't Know isn't a perfect album but an impressive debut by one of the UK's most ambitious young urban groups. They have already wiped out competition from the UK garage underground, with They Don't Know, So Solid are getting their teeth deeply into the mainstream. --Jake Barnes
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Manufacturer: Independiente
Release date: 19 November 2001
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 5099750481325
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