Hilltop Hoods-the calling
January 3rd 2010 23:00
It's hard to imagine that this album is almost 7 years old. The Hilltop Hoods were just 3 boys playing hip-hop in the Adelaide Hills when they hit success off the back of the extremely catchy 'Nosebleed Section' which went on to feature highly in triple J's Hottest 100 that year. (And was the highest polled Aussie act in 2009's Hottest 100 of all time) The group opened a floodgate of really good hip-hop acts to emerge in this country and stand up to be counted as as a strong musical genre.
The tracks tell a tale of where the guys have come from and where they are currently at. Looking back it’s not hard to see why this launched the band into the musical mainstream. Every song is enjoyable whether it’s the opening song ‘Testimonial Year’, through to the second single ‘Dumb Enough’, “Nosebleed Section’ to the closer ‘The Sentinel’. The album tears through a number of beats, breaks, samples and great rhymes provided by MC’s Suffa and Pressure.
What this album signifies is what will become a landmark in Australian music. When hip hop stood up and became counted as a legit musical style in this country. Not trying to copy what comes out of America, but added an national slant to it that makes it relevant and interesting to even the stringent disbeliever of the genre. If you’ve managed to ignore this so far, stop. Check this album out and not be convinced of it’s brilliance. Playing the festival circuit this year from Canberra’s trackside to Homebake to the Falls Festival to the Big Day Out. Check them out.
The tracks tell a tale of where the guys have come from and where they are currently at. Looking back it’s not hard to see why this launched the band into the musical mainstream. Every song is enjoyable whether it’s the opening song ‘Testimonial Year’, through to the second single ‘Dumb Enough’, “Nosebleed Section’ to the closer ‘The Sentinel’. The album tears through a number of beats, breaks, samples and great rhymes provided by MC’s Suffa and Pressure.
What this album signifies is what will become a landmark in Australian music. When hip hop stood up and became counted as a legit musical style in this country. Not trying to copy what comes out of America, but added an national slant to it that makes it relevant and interesting to even the stringent disbeliever of the genre. If you’ve managed to ignore this so far, stop. Check this album out and not be convinced of it’s brilliance. Playing the festival circuit this year from Canberra’s trackside to Homebake to the Falls Festival to the Big Day Out. Check them out.
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