Nouveau Sound System Culture

I’ve been meaning to write about Gold Chains’ Young Miss America album for most of this week. I sat down over the weekend and made some impressionistic notes that I intended to shape together into a “proper” review, but the week has been busy and the weekend promises to be busier. Also, mentally I’m already moving on to a review of the Annie Lennox album; if I leave half-written posts for longer than a few days they go stale and I never feel like finishing them. Attention span of a gnat, that’s me. (Gold Chains? So last week.)
Therefore… this is lazy and self-indulgent of me, but I’m going to post the notes instead. Yes, you’re getting a rare glimpse of the Hg creative process. This is raw brainstuff, unspiced, unseasoned and, in fact, pretty much unwritten. Make of it what you will. Alternatively, you could just ignore this half-baked loafing around and click on over to this funky flash-based promo site as a good introduction. Then when you’re done, check Mr GC’s site itself, which has samples of every single track on the album.
The notey stuff starts below, dahlings. Just in case you can’t tell the difference.
Music – hip hop, UK garage, dancehall, old-school electro, new-school electroclash, techno, glam rock, swamp blues, insane bhangra/tango hybrid of Nada (with timestretched vocals). Meaty, big and bouncy.
Beastie Boys, Salt ‘n’ Pepa, mid-period Prodigy, Princess Superstar’s (or maybe Peaches