their own brand of old school laced good time vibes and beats. I spoke to MC Andy Cooper ahead of a fruitful October for the group, as they prepare for their latest world tour to promote their fifth album ‘Moving at Breakneck Speed’, released on October 10th, and a return visit to Norwich Arts Centre.
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It’s been over a decade since your debut album ‘Journey to Anywhere’ was released. Do you think your sound has changed in that time? I think it’s one of things where we’ve held the same fundamentals in our approach to production and song creation, but hopefully we’ve developed it a bit and we’ve tried to do some different things within that same
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structure. For the most part I think we approach song writing and production in a very similar manner than we did when we first met each other in the early 90s. Tere’s one style of hip hop we really like and we stick to it. We try and do as much as we can with it and try some different stuff. On every album we’re looking for a different angle with something we haven’t
alifornian hip hop trio Ugly Duckling have seen a lot of acts come and go during their time in the music industry, but have always managed to stay true to
done before, but they’re more nuances and subtle things than big changes.
You’re last album ‘Audacity’ was a bit more melancholy than your previous efforts, but it sounds like you’ve picked up the pace again on ‘Moving at Breakneck Speed’. What’s the main inspiration behind this album? Tat’s a pretty good evaluation. On the last album we tried to do some melancholy stuff and tried to be a little more personal. I think an artist tends to do that once in a while, where you want to look internally. But on this one, as you say, we wanted to pick up the pace again and it’s sort of a metaphor for our lives looking back at our career in music, if you can call it a career! It’s a feeling that we’re always staying two steps ahead of the law and ahead of reality and we’re just running from the industry and the reality of having to entertain people and how difficult a thing that is to do consistently. So we
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