Prophecy revealed
2 01 2008
It seems being on the other side of the world has its advantages after all. Upon hearing Culture Prophet would be handing out CDs at their NYE set in Spartanburg (I have no idea where this is other than somewhere in the US of A), an immediate if plaintive cry for help from down here in the deep dark bowels of the South Pacific saw a little treasure arrive in my inbox almost anon-like.
Ladies and gentlemen, Culture Prophet have just dropped their latest homegrown effort and it is rather good. The song is Here Comes Nasty.
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Culture Prophet – Here Comes Nasty.
You can taste hints of their earlier song Hustler, the familiar hand clap-thump refrain in their remixes of other people’s work, and the lashings of distortion we’ve come to know and love. I really quite like this. I really do.
I’ve been sitting on this for a few days now, not really sure what to do with it. Its a good song and I’m really enjoying it, so it wasn’t through damaged pride or disappointment. I guess I just didn’t want it to get lost in the thunderous torrent of fairly-banal end-of-year lists that have stricken the blogsophere in recent weeks.
With attention seeming to have since shifted to “artists to watch in ’08″-type posts and with so many of their remixes getting more and more attention on the blogosphere, I’d say the time is right for more of their own work to be given a chance to shine.
Cool hair. Just look at that volume at the back!
Oh I know – I dream of one day having hair like that
Spartanburg, South Carolina.
Culture Prophet is an amazing band; and when they play at Ground Zero here in Keg-City (the third nickname that Spartanburg has picked up for itself. After having been called Sparkle City and then Hub City, the club hopping and party throwing crowd has dubbed it Keg-City.) it’s even more amazing.