Summary from 16 ratings
On Wavelength, fans have rated Skepta's catalog across 4 albums from 16 opinions, with an overall average of 7.7/10. The top-rated Skepta album is Konnichiwa (2016) with a 8.0/10 average from 7 ratings, followed by Ignorance Is Bliss and Vicious EP. The discography on Wavelength spans 2016 to 2019. Shutdown ranks as the highest-rated Skepta song on Wavelength with a 9.0/10 average.
Konnichiwa
“There are probably many reasons why grime, after a brief and thrilling heyday followed by a lapse into awkward pop crossover and Robbie Williams guestspots, is back in a big way. Most of them, though, point back to Skepta. Tottenham’s Joseph Adengua had a crack at the charts like all the rest, donning a white suit and skanking about with girls in bikinis on the video to 2008’s ‘Rolex Sweep’. But i”
Ignorance Is Bliss
“I’m going to volunteer an unpopular opinion: Ignorance Is Bliss, Skepta’s latest release, is a better album than the Mercury Prize-winning Konnichiwa. I don’t want to hear any objections. This record is exactly what we need right now, an antidote to the relentless political commentary from all corners of popular culture, a return to grime that is about pushing the street level experience of London”
Konnichiwa
“Skepta's Konnichiwa is grime's best album since, well, Boy in Da Corner”
Ignorance Is Bliss
“‘Konnichiwa’ seems like a very long time ago. Since Skepta more than deservedly took the Mercury Prize for his fourth album in 2016, the Tottenham rapper has maintained a relatively low-profile, appearing on the odd featured track, with mixed results. ‘England Lost’, a collaboration with Mick Jagger, was genuinely harrowing, an anti-Brexit rap-rock crossover on which Mick griped about having lost ”
Konnichiwa
“On Skepta's long-awaited new album, the grime pioneer is full of sneering contempt for popular culture’s industry of image, the press, the police, and the government at large.”
Ignorance Is Bliss
“Skepta doesn't break new ground on Ignorance Is Bliss, but he's still a master of his craft”
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