South London-based emcee Ultra_Eko drops his highly anticipated new nine-track album ON TRIAL, PART ONE, executively produced by Subsequel

Ultra_eko’s new album ‘On Trial, Part One‘ is a shape-shifting mission statement, with each track revealing a different side to the multi-talented Croydon rapper who stitches everything together with a dark lyrical thread and a wicked way with words.

Things come to a head with his snarling delivery on the ferocious closing track, a bleak look at the ‘Black Dog’ on his shoulder. But the power of the album lies in the contrast between this song and the one before, the thought-provoking single ‘Two Point Four’, tackling the “Death of the modern-day family”, Ultra_eko raps melodically over an exhilarating Weeknd-style electro-pop beat right from the opposite end of the spectrum.

Between these extremes, Ultra_eko repeatedly takes the path less travelled with his vocals, relaxing into a soulful flow on ‘The Trial‘ then skipping through off-kilter bars with his mind “More twisted than a double helix” on the scarily-relevant ‘Variant’. The emcee does the track title justice with a threatening tone on the swaggering ‘Malevolent’, just after butting heads with autotuned vocals over a greasy beat on ’21st Century’, another demonstration of Subsequel’s formidable production muscle.

Ultra_eko eats, sleeps, and breathes outside the box and that’s exactly where the first half of his ambitious two-part project plants its black flag, Part Two lands later this year, be ready.

“In case you haven’t realised it yet, the UK’S own Ultra_eko is unquestionably a genius of the art form” – Stereostickman.

“Powerful in their own right, but monumental together, the two parts of ‘On Trial’ are easily Ultra_eko’s magnum opus” – Broken8 Records.

Ultra_eko – On Trial, Part One via iTunes/Spotify

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