The buzz: "We're sure to see more of Random Impulse" –. We repeat: we haven't got any money, but if we did, here's the man we'd put it on. Impulse – Random to his friends – has apparently only been playing guitar for just over a year, which explains the crudity of his performances, but hardly accounts for the excitement he generates whenever he plugs in. Lying to Myself is another track that pivots on a basic riff, essentially a tinny version of the Teen Spirit one. That guitar riff could be the Cortinas or someone from the punk class of '76 given a grime makeover. Put It on My Card is well Sheeran-esque in its simplistic examination of quotidian impulses. It's a bit like N*E*R*D in full-on rock mode, only without the same lightness of touch or melodic/rhythmic invention. Still, this is clearly going to work well on the gig circuit with its slamming bass, drum clatter and wiry guitars. On a Roll, the first track on the forthcoming No Sleep ffor Winners EP, is nice and snarly, with a parochial charm (references to tenners and the National Lottery, and so forth) that will appeal to British listeners even if it might mean US success continues to elude a UK grime act. This is what we thought Dot Rotten was going to sound like: a grime-age Johnny Rotten rapping vernacular vitriol over serrated riffs.
Oh, and he's got a degree in genetic engineering so even if his music career goes belly-up – which, as we say, we'd bet our bank account on not happening, admittedly a safe one considering we're overdrawn – he'll be sorted, job-wise. His first EP, Overload, hit No 5 in the hip-hop charts on its first day of release in March, and the new one is an even more commercial fusion or frictional alliance of indie guitars and grime raps/beats, ahead of a debut album he's currently recording with producers as disparate as Guy Chambers, Future Cut (Lily Allen, Kate Nash), Semothy Jones (Little Boots, Plan B) and Brian West (K'naan, Nelly Furtato).
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With a 44-track mixtape, Full Metal Alchemist, under his belt, he's had songs featured in HBO's Bones, CBS's NCIS: Los Angeles and the US Superbowl. We know we said that about Spark as well as Lady Gaga, but come on, it'd be boring if we were always right.Ī guitarist, songwriter, MC and producer, he's already been bigged-up by everyone from MTV to the Huffington Post, he's written and produced for Lupe Fiasco, signed Chipmunk to his own indie imprint Reignasance, engineered for Tinie Tempah, Wretch 32 and Wiley, and remixed Tinchy Stryder.
He's a 22-year-old punky grime boy, the black Ed Sheeran (his best mate, apparently) only with loud, fast electric riffs instead of acoustic strumming, and he's going to be huge. This Random Impulse chap's a dead-cert for inclusion in the latter, if not a candidate for winning the former. The background: It's fast approaching that time when people – critics as well as real humans – start making predictions about who's going to be big next year, with the Brits critics' choice award and BBC Sound of 2012 poll looming. The lineup: Jovel Walker (voice, guitar).
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