Spoek Mathambo: Father Creeper – review

(Sub Pop)Spoek Mathambo (or Nthato Mokgata as he's known to his family) can be a prickly character: bridling over a feature in these pages last year in which he perceived himself portrayed as a figurehead for kwaito, for instance – whereas as any fule kno, he was really a harbinger of darkwave township tech, a more mutant strain of South African house. But prickly in a different sense, too. His debut, Mshini Wam, featured a cover of Joy Division's Control (with an eye-popping video by photogr...

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