01. Searching
02. The Key
03. Better Days (feat. Micachu)
04. Spinnin'
05. Go Then, Bye
06. Daddy's Little Girl
07. Bad Boy
08. Wheels in Motion (feat. Roots Manuva)
09. Live & Learn
10. Working Weak
11. Buddy Love
12. Finish This Album
13. Speech Therapy
Speech Debelle is unusually sensitive and articulate for a rapper, and more inclined to melancholy and pessimism than bullish breastbeating.
And thanks to the diverse input of collaborators from outside the customary R&B/hip-hop territory, the settings for her lyrical ruminations on Speech Therapy are vastly more interesting than most: Tunng’s Mike Lindsay, for instance, contributes the bricolage of clicky percussion, pizzicato strings and trumpet behind “Spinnin’”, and the wistful humming and acoustic guitar for “Live And Learn”, while Australian producer Plutonic Lab devises both the weird, clarinet-laced setting of “The Key” and the haunting string-synth, glockenspiel and guitar arrangement for Speech’s duet with Micachu, “Better Days”.
But the album title is a touch too apt: the issues she raps about – her absent father, lonely hostel existence, grim inner-city conditions, romantic break-up, and her general struggle to deal with life’s confusions – don’t make for particularly cheery listening, and her constant tone of hurt reproach enervates rather than uplifts.
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Post je objavljen 27.07.2009. u 14:07 sati.