Dalek - From Filthy Tongues
by David McNamee
published: 16 / 9 / 2002
Label:
Ipecac
Format: CD
intro
"Hip hop from the edge" from Dalek, who initially "cut their teeth on collaborations with the likes of Techno Animal and Kid606
Words are weapons. Round here, we don’t have much time for Wu Tang’s ‘Rar! I’m a NINJA!’ childplay, not when we have the Candyman reciting poetry from The Other Side on street corners and shit like this screaming out of mirrors. Dälek cut their teeth on collaborations with the likes of Techno Animal and Kid606, and have sharpened them into /fangs/ on 'From Filthy Tongues of Gods and Griots'. This is hip hop from the edge. These are Truth Tales spoken in tongues by a preacherman versed in the darkest arts: “There lies a language in the noise and the hum. Prepare for martyrdom! Prepare for martyrdom! I speak that ancient tongue. There lies a language in the noise and the hum...” These words spin on shards of metal and shine and slice like a flickknife in the night. They kiss your eyelids with the soft redeeming cold of coins for The Boatman. This music is hard to touch. It constantly warps out of form, bending and melting under the pressure of craniums about to implode and held together only by the need to impart as much otherworldly wisdom as possible from lips that are flayed with every syllable. Words are weapons.
Track Listing:-
1 Spiritual Healing2 Speak Volumes
3 ...From Mole Hills
4 Artichristo
5 Hold Tight
6 Heads
7 Black Smoke Rises
8 Trampled Brethren
9 Voices of the Ether
10 Forever Close My Eyes
11 Classical Homicide
digital downloads
most viewed articles
current edition
Robby Krieger - Set The Night on Fire, Living, Dying, And Playing Guitar with The DoorsBoomtown Rats - Ten Songs That Made Me Love....
Lida Husik - Interview
Cathal Coughlan - Interview
Rick Wakeman - Interview
Peter Doherty and Frederic Lo - Cavern Club, Liverpool, 27/3/2022
Cliff Richard - Not Fade Away
Simon Bromide - Interview
Candlelight Tribute to Coldplay - Manchester Cathedral, Manchester, 1/4/2022
Wolfgang Flur - Interview
most viewed reviews
current edition
Rupert Wates - For The PeopleBanjo Jen - Fine Line
Kiki Dee and Carmelo Luggeri - The Long Ride Home
Dead South - Easy Listening for Jerks Parts 1 and 2
Bonham-Bullick - Bonham-Bullick
Family - A Song for Me
Loop - Sonancy
Stereophonics - Oochya!
Weather Station - How Is It That I Should Look At The Stars
John Mayall - The Sun is Shining Down
Pennyblackmusic Regular Contributors
Adrian Janes
Adrian P
Amanda J. Window
Andrew Twambley
Anthony Dhanendran
Benjamin Howarth
Carl Bookstein
Chris O'Toole
Cila Warncke
Daniel Cressey
Darren Aston
Dave Goodwin
Denzil Watson
Dixie Ernill
Dominic B. Simpson
Eoghan Lyng
Fiona Hutchings
Harry Sherriff
Helen Tipping
Jamie Rowland
John Clarkson
Julie Cruickshank