Egyptian Hip Hop: Good Don't Sleep – review

(R&S)For all their tender years, Manchester four-piece Egyptian Hip Hop don't want for ambition: their debut album sets indie, prog rock, 80s pop and most points in between to hypnotically pulsing rhythms; at times they evoke the lush beauty of Cocteau Twins, not least on The White Falls. But whereas Elizabeth Fraser's largely unintelligible vocals sounded spine-tinglingly moving, Alex Hewett – equally unintelligible – too often sounds like a man muttering his way through his shopping list. ...

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