London, UK based emcee Dirty Dike drops his new ACRYLIC SNAIL album, out now via High Focus Records, accompanied by a brand new video for the track REX 01, featuring renowned Grime artist Killa P, and UK Hip Hop linchpins Inja and Foreign Beggars

The fifth album from Dirty Dike, ‘Acrylic Snail’ is released along with the video for ‘REX 01’ featuring Killa P, Inja And Foreign Beggars. Premiering via Complex, Dirty Dike explains:

“This track is special to me. I’m a junglist at heart, it was my first real true musical love and I wanted to make something that reflected those insane raves at that venue in that year. The Stratford Rex in 2001 was a fucking adventure”.

Following a three-year hiatus since his last solo outing ‘Sucking On Prawns In The Moonlight’ and after a ream of production work for the likes of Rag’n’Bone Man (‘Put That Soul On Me’), Ocean Wisdom (‘Chaos 93’) and Lee Scott (‘Butter Fly’) during that time, Dike releases his brand new 14-track album; his most personal release to date and a body of work that shines a full-beam-floodlight on his formative years, but moreover, the dreamlike transition between then and now.

The album has already had impressive support with DJ’s such as DJ Target, Shortee Blitz & MK championing joints such as Permanent Midnight and music lovers lapping up Dirty Dike’s infectious personality via his exclusive interviews with Hype Magazine and The Big Issue. Meanwhile, fans have been reloading the album since its release and taking to social networks to give their praise.

Firmly anchored in a chapter of the UK underground before everything went to shit, situated a couple behind this current grizzly chapter, the songs bounce off the walls of abandoned industrial estates and whoosh by at breakneck speeds like trains through tunnels. The album embodies the freezing cold concrete pours, twilight toe slaps and irregularly shaped ballast banks of the network. In short, ‘Acrylic Snail’ pays homage to the things Dike saw in the very farthest reaches of the night that made him who he is today.

Dirty Dike – Acrylic Snail via iTunes/Spotify

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