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I'm something of a fan of spoken word. Sometimes a soliloquy and a good backing track is all I need. If you have any tracks you like, throw them my way.

Here's a few of mine.

rachel kann - my priority


ThE DiAboLIcaL LibERTieS - eaST Of tHe DUb cANaL (FEat. gENerAl RUBbIsH & nYaSHa)


Gil Scott-Heron - Whitey On the Moon

Perhaps a bit more "musical" than what's requested, but the below two songs have launched themselves among my favourite songs of all time and given me a bit of a mini-obsession with spoken word type narratives as well.

The first one is Craig Finn's "God in Chicago". Finn has always been a storyteller but this is the first time where it sounds like he's sat down and told a story. A simple character piece of two lonely people finding companionship in one another on a journey someone else was meant to take. When I first heard the song it came up on a random playlist, and I literally did stop to just take it all in.


The second one being Cassandra Jenkins' "Hard Drive", a song of contemplation, meditative search for one's own peace of mind, and something that sounded (and still sounds) truly healing, especially when it arrived during the pandemic lockdown times.

Aesop Rock's previous album, Integrated Tech Solutions, really didn't do it for me, but one track stuck out



I kind of like Landscape with Snow, and I'm glad he painted it.

Some good stuff here.

Big fan of Aesop Rock, too.

I’ll throw down a recommendation! Matana Roberts’ work is absolutely phenomenal, if a bit dense; Coin Coin Chapter 4 was my favorite jazz album of 2019 and I really do recommend giving it a listen. The spoken word sections are a bit sparse but very possibly right up your alley:

This might be cheating a little, but one of my favourite musical groups of the 2000s was the collaboration between the poet Scroobius Pip, and the DJ dan le sac. Their first big hit together was "Thou Shalt Always Kill" which seems to fit the genre nicely.



Not everything they put out during that collab probably counts as 'spoken word' more than it does rap music, but as it all has its origins in spoken poetry, I think it outta count