Return To The 36 Chambers: Vinyl 2LP Blondshell ‘Working Boy in New York

‘Working Boy in New York City’ exists in a parallel universe where the band did in fact make it to California – such is the escapist bliss of its sloping flute and bittersweet funk

Brian Bennett & Keith Mansfield – Mermaid **

a tiny parade of shops – Post Office Row – and a grand country pile which stood about half a mile away from the village: Tyneham House

but when we are asleep we are entirely vulnerable

passion and loss

Return To The 36 Chambers: Vinyl 2LP Blondshell ‘Working Boy in New YorkIt's safe to say that hip hop has never seen an album like Ol Dirty Bastard's 1995 solo debut Return to the 36 Chambers. The brief glimpses of ODB's unhinged genius provided by Wu Tang Clan's landmark Enter the Wu Tang album two years earlier were begging to be expanded on to a larger canvas, and, with RZA guiding production, the album promised to give Dirty the creative license to make one of the most bizarre, entertaining and original LPs in hiphop