Album: Egyptian Hip Hop, Good Don't Sleep (R&S
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After one EP and gallons of ones-to-watch hype in 2009, Mancunian teenagers Egyptian Hip Hop, still aged only around the 20 mark, have finally released their debut album and it's somewhat less than momentous.
There are hints of CSS, the Cocteau Twins and the mellower passages of My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, but its psych/prog/techno palette is permanently watercolour. Never startling, never seizing your attention, it simply washes over you.
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