Kneecap – Fine Art: Album Of The Week

Kneecap’s Fine Art album was released this week – revisit Live4ever’s review and stream it right here.

“It very much helps in the 21st century to offer equal opportunity to all.”

“It also helps to have some perspective about your art, so Moglaí Bap – one of the three members of West Belfast hip hop group Kneecap – was hardly boasting when he declared: ‘The beauty of Kneecap is that we not only piss off people from the Unionist background, we also piss off people from the Irish community…We don’t discriminate who we piss off.’”

“A LOT of history brought Northern Ireland to where it is (Google is your friend), but along with partners in crime Mo Chara and DJ Provaí, he’s witnessed just how far people are prepared to go in manufacturing offence.”

Admittedly, some has been cheekily provoked (2020 single Get Your Brits Out satirically imagined a night out with members of the country’s ultra-conservative Democratic Unionist Party) however, just as much bile has been aimed at their rhyming in Gaelic in an attempt to keep alive a tongue banished from urban areas centuries ago.

“If all this sounds a little heavy, be reassured that Fine Art is an uncompromising but hyperactive grab bag of styles and moods that never gives up its intent to make you dance.”

Click here for the review in full