Popping on this album, rather than taking notice of
boasts about AF The King’s enormous, throbbing p*nis
and insatiable love jones, police car sirens,
gun-shots, or noisy-for-my-benefit pot smoking I
catch: "You are about to hear the sounds of eclectic
intelligence." Without being on some clown vibe, or
attempting to one-up Q-Tip or De La Soul, Af the King
(AKA Africa) brings an alternative to alternative
hip-hop.
Honing his skills after hours at a college radio
station, Af absorbed both rap, and the rock and roll
of U2, Shriekback, Simple Minds, and Depeche Mode.
Appreciating the nuances of such distinctly different
methods of music made him form a group called African
Nemesis, which would eventually dissolve, but not
before the concept of a full-scale hip-hop band was
put in Af’s head by producers Roey Shamir and Angela
Piva, who both wrote, produced, and arranged Torture
Taught Ya’.
Moving ahead to right now, and Af brings out his hot
like a branding iron debut album, with stand-out
tracks, like L.I. to Brooklyn, Still Get Down,
Madness, Pay Attention, and Lovely. The mixture of
turntables and, sampled beats with acoustic drums,
keyboards, saxophone, organ, clavinet (!),
synthesizers, and bass make this a pronounced step
towards possibly a whole new genre of modern music.
Highly recommended!
By Jason Thornberry, CanEHdian.com
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AF The King - "Torture Taught Ya’" 