What I'm Listening to at the moment...

The charts are a bit uneventful at the moment… other than the intriguing and infuriatingly catchy, ‘We No Speak Americano’. New Albums have also dried up a bit since Arcade Fire and Eminem released their new efforts.

However, hopefully Klaxons’ new album, Surfing The Void, will reinvigorate things again. Furthermore, due to my significant lack of funds, I am not going to Reading, even though two of my favourite bands are playing (that is Arcade Fire and The Libertines by the way). So, I thought I would give you a peak at my IPod, to see what I’m listening to at the moment.

Eminem, ’25 To Life’ (from Recovery): Eminem is back to his formidable best, and ’25 To Life’ captures this better than any other song on Recovery. The song is about Em’s tempestuous relationship with rap music: “When you spoke to people who meant the most to you/You left me off your list/Fuck you hip-hop/I’m leaving you, my life sentence is served bitch.” For Eminem, rap has simultaneously brought him out of poverty, whilst also leading him down a road of self-destruction. With a great chorus, killer rap and a brilliant beat over an acoustic guitar, this song really has everything that makes Mr. Mathers a genius.

Album Review: Eminem - Recovery

This is the album that Relapse should have been. Eminem returns just over a year after his previous output with Recovery, arguably his best album since The Eminem Show. Recovery is Eminem’s 7th studio album, and takes a bold step away from his previous work, perhaps to show his growing maturity.

Relapse was not a bad album, yet it failed to deliver anything to match Marshall’s previous back catalogue, other than a handful of highlights.

It is possibly for this very reason that Eminem scrapped Relapse 2, and replaced it with Recovery, as the man himself stated: ‘the idea of a sequel to Relapse started to make less and less sense to me, and I wanted to make a completely new album’.