North Wales beat poet rapper AKIRA THE DON is not one to mince his words and revels in acting as a fish bowl lens on the mundane and inane of everyday life, casting either a caustic or a cautionary eye over the details of whatever his beef happens to be in his given song.
Words are his real skill but on the track ‘Patrick’ he manages to find a telling and almost magical musical backdrop for his bio-rap of the song’s protagonist, that may or not be partly autobiographical. Either way. Mike Skinner this ain’t. There’s too much of the single-minded self-taught misfit to AKIRA THE DON and I could well imagine that despite his earlier exclamation of “Now I wanna be the Rap Morrissey’ he may well be the genre’s Luke Haines.
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‘Living In The Future’ and ‘Cut You In The Face’ contain more typical musical surroundings but again the word-play is hard to fault; the former posting an ironic celebration of the way technology threatens to rule our senses and emotions while you’ll be hard pushed to find a more honest and open confessional to past loves this year than on the latter track.
‘Patrick’ is outstanding, the others very good but AKIRA THE DON himself is the main event.
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