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Album Reviews
Album Review: The Tenants Supermen – The Tenants Supermen (Self-released)
By CMU Editorial | Published on Monday 24 November 2008
Do you remember how on ‘She’s Electric’ the suspect rhyming style kind of felt like they were getting away with murder? But then they were sort of let off cause, well, it was Oasis wasn’t it? Well, Tenants Supermen aren’t Oasis. And they can’t get away with it one bit. Consisting of GLC ‘rapper’ Adam Hussain and “Newport’s number one cabaret DJ” Graham The Bear, this release is possibly the worst thing I have ever heard.
When the seminal Welsh rap group burst on to a fast stagnating UK hip-hop scene, they attacked everything in sight with the ferocity of a leek-wielding angry dragon. Lisps challenged perceptions left, right and centre, and a moral message from on high rained down, smiting advocates of rap’s relationship with firearms. I may have been exaggerating a bit there, but stick the collective GLC product next to this ‘effort’ and you can’t help but pray for those glory days.
This album contains lines like, “My dick is big and nasty, like a chunky Cornish pasty”. Where GLC had the odd punchline that caught you off guard, teasing a smile, Tenant’s Supermen make you want to hurt things. Mainly them. “But we’ve got bills to pay, and that is gay”. Oh God. And the only possible way to describe the backing is if Har Mar lost all his decent keyboards, his sense of irony, and all but one finger on each hand. “They won’t take my cans from the wheelie bin, I hide them in a bin bag but that’s a sin”. For fuck’s sake. ME
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