BlackenedWhite Fat Possum***

There's a lot more to the Odd Future crew than Tyler, The Creator and his goblins. While we wait for Frank Ocean to send us more postcards from his soulful odyssey and Earl Sweatshirt to return to action, it's MellowHype duo Hodgy Beats and Left Brain who are about to get some shine, with a revamped reissue of their 2010 album. BlackenedWhitewill draw in newbies attracted by the recent Odd Future-generated palaver, and there's plenty to stick around for. Over Left Brain's low-slung, sweeping, sludgy, eerie, crackling beats, Hodgy rhymes about girls, guns and smoking copious amounts of weed. Tracks Brain and the stoned Primo are keepers, although Loaded is probably

the pick of the bunch thanks to Left Brain’s on-point production, which more than makes up for Hodgy’s occasional lapses.

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Download tracks: Primo, Loaded