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Watching a Wesley Joseph video clip can’t hurt. The musician from Birmingham once studied film, directed short films and generally sees his work as a total work of art. Now the clip for “Monsoon” won’t trigger an MTV renaissance, but it illustrates well what also happens on GLOW, his EP, which is actually too long for an EP: Joseph adapts clichés between R’n’B and rap, but continues them new together. Shiny bare torsos, references to African folklore, a rapid-fire rifle, dancing in front of the fisheye camera: it looks like your usual little music film, but the individual elements are in the wrong place, in new contexts.
That’s how it goes on GLOW, where in the eight tracks auto-tune gimmicks and jazzy pajama rap are sent together in the box, orchestral urges, soundtrack dramaturgy and reduced beats shake hands, classic soul, old school -Hip-hop and future-pop arm wrestling without ever sounding like a show of force. It’s all in here, maybe too much, but Stromae is getting a British brother and there can’t be enough of that.
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