Fattaru
Min drömmars stad
Redline Records
I've been listening a lot to mediocre albums these days, and unfortunately Fattaru's latest album "Mina drömmars stad" adheres to this pattern. Their first album "Fatta eld" (released 2001) was an exercise in banging beats and hit-making, and one of my favourite hiphop albums ever (seriously). After that, Fattaru "matured" and released the jazzy and horrible "Jordnära" (2003) - an album that's best forgotten. For their third album they've gone back a bit to the more direct approach of making songs, but they've also kept a lot of their more "mature" influences, and taken some new ones on board (electro, grime, etc). All in all, it's a very diverse album that contains one fantastic song ("100 spänn"), some ok ones (e.g. "Ung snubbe", "Den där skiten"), and some other quite bad ones (e.g. "Sthlmsnatt"). If Fattaru had released another "Jordnära", I totally would have given up on them, but thanks to the better parts of "Mina drömmars stad", I'm interested to see what they've got to offer in the, hopefully not too far away, future.
- Simon Tagestam