Dub Police head honcho ‘Caspa’ has just dropped a full length album ‘Everybody’s Talking, Nobody’s Listening’. The record is jam-packed with what has become his signature mid-tempo, wobble-bass dubstep. The type of dubstep that’s all over mainstream radio and the soundtrack to sweaty, skankin’, student shenanigans across the UK. Bandwagon dubsteppers will adore this record. It’s not that I’m completely against this type of dubstep and I’ll hold my hands up and admit I was hung on the bass early on, it’s just that this sound has grown predictable and somewhat boring.
The album is exactly as I anticipated. The production is decent to terrible in places when Caspa attempts to turn his hand to alternative styles/genres. It’s an expected vibe that will make it’s audience happy. Ironically the best track on the album is probably ‘The Terminator’, a record that’s had bodies squirming on dance floors for many moons now. It’s actually quite a strange feeling reviewing a dubstep album in this vein. The genre seems to have become so cliche, but no matter how much Radio 1 ‘bandwagoners’ put me off, deep down I do hold a certain affinity for sub bass and it’s tightrope walk along the boundaries of aural and physical satisfaction. Even if ‘Caspa’s’ mid-tempo ‘womping’ dubstep is looking older and cornier than a ‘Carry On’ movie, it still reaches it’s goal of packing dance floors. It’s the forays elsewhere that stink the yard out on this record for example on ‘Disco Jaws feat. Beezy’ the production and lyrical content/delivery are literally beyond a joke.
All in all I could only sum this album up as…’meh’ or…’blah’ at best. Take it or leave it. Much to the contrary is this review from dailymusicguide.
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