NINE

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Released by the fiercely anonymous British collective with a strict 99-day availability window, this album shifts their focus specifically to the harsh realities of life in London's housing estates. The project blends incredibly tight funk grooves and neo-soul harmonies with raw, spoken-word vignettes concerning gang violence and systemic poverty. It remains a brilliantly executed, highly conceptual statement from one of modern R&B's most vital groups.