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CMU Approved
Approved: Egyptian Hip Hop – SYH
By Aly Barchi | Published on Thursday 16 August 2012
Mancunian quartet Egyptian Hip Hop have lain pretty low since their Hudson Mohawke-sired EP, ‘Some Reptiles Grew Wings’, had critics fawning over ‘Rad Pitt’ and ‘Moon Crooner’ back in 2010, vocalist Alexander Hewett preferring to tour with Conan Mockasin and Charlotte Gainsbourg while his bandmates… did other things. Anyways, they’re now signed to R&S Records (never a negative sign), and will at last release their debut long player, ‘Good Don’t Sleep’, on 22 Oct.
Preceding that is new single ‘SYH’ – an acronym for ‘Strange Yellow Hand’, apparently – and a more obscure construct than anything EHH have trialled in the past. Playing like a dark refraction of ‘Rad Pitt’s odd-pop bonhomie, it thrums with drugged electronica and serpentine synths, Hewett’s underwater vox faltering in the face a cosmic instrumental fade.
Get ahold of ‘SYH’ here:
