Blackhaine: Saints in the Wethouse review | Alexis Petridis's album of the week
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TLDRWhatever you thought the early 2020s were going to throw up musically, it’s highly unlikely you would have predicted the arrival of Blackhaine. Saints in the Wethouse is an experience that wrings the listener out, dragging them headlong through an unforgiving musical landscape. Whatever Blackhaine claims about copyists, he sounds pretty inimitable.
On the second track on his debut album, Tom Heyes accuses lesser artists of copying him. “What the fuck you even take me for?” he barks on Northside Needs Me, over a grinding, distorted bassline that comes punctuated with stammering, rave-y vocal samples. “Too much noise shit, replicating what I played before.”
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