EP Review: Rude Grl And CC – Like Wow!

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Rude Grl & CC

Like Wow - Firefly Entertainment

If like myself, your a little fed up to the nth degree of the force fed, HipHop/R&B generic drivel that feels like you just opened a can of fizzy pop just to find out its as flat and lifeless as, well the first time you heard a Coldplay album!

So now it’s time for the world of Punk to crash headlong into this genre and gave it some balls.

Enter Rude Grl & CC, a combination that promises to bring something great to your ears, and quite frankly by the sounds of this EP ‘Like Wow’ might just be the fuck you! I’m here and I deserve to be! We need at the moment.

Born from two very different but strangely enough a lot similar than you might at first think, Rude Grl & CC are bassist-about-town Chris Constantinou of Lou Reed and Adam Ant notoriety,  Basement Jaxx rapper Jenna Dickens alias Rude Grl and international twerk of art Bunni Morretto.

With a passion for bringing your attention to the wrongs that have been levelled at certain groups of humanity in the form of Racial inequalities, Homophobia, which in turn give rise to personal struggles that come along with a life in constant battle against the narrow minded section of our communities. This translates into music that has a heart, a soul and depth of passion that lacks in some of the more shouted about rubbish that fills our charts these day.

Three tracks long with the addition of a remix and a radio edit version, the latter is I suppose the only way you can get your art out to the masses, without offending the less educated.  ‘Like Wow’ hits the brain first, like a hammer to the senses, catchy with a hypnotic beat, nothing new you might think here, but slap in a rock guitar riff and vocals that demand something more than just attention, they say “I will live” and “I’m here regardless of you”, it’s not a song of hope, its a song of breaking out!  

‘Over Kill’ with bass that reverbs around your head like a drug, guitar that speaks to you like a life line dragging you back from the brink, the vocal dodges and weaves through this soundscape perfectly, with a hard hitting lyric that cover drug addiction, alcoholism and fight to beat it, no punches pulled but plenty given.

Lastly we come to ‘Lets Go’ the most pop of all three, well at least in its melodic Lorde esk hooky chorus, but this is a wolf in sheep’s clothing of a song, a hard listen at times, an opening up of wounds that go so deep that getting past them will always be an ongoing fight. 

So, before you drop this into your ears, open your mind and never judge an artist by their genre.  Punk Rock does live here, along side HipHop, but most of all this EP crosses lines that needs to be crossed. 

 

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