Another cut to fall foul of the MB summer holiday chaos has been this effort from Leeds band, Fold, dropping a fortnight or so ago, hot on the heels of previous single Insurgent Mood. This time around it’s downtempo hip-hop number, Aphelion, featuring MC and poet Mr Gee on the mic and a searing critique of racial inequality. Gee’s lyrics pointedly include a pop at bandwagon-jumping virtue signallers who recently procliamed that black lives matter and then sat back like they’d just split the atom despite that declaration being the sum total of their ‘efforts’ to improve the situation. Aphelion forms the title track of Fold’s forthcoming long-player.
(Out now on FoldFM)