20 Greatest Alternative Albums Of 2016
9. A Tribe Called Quest – We Got It From Here...Thank You 4 Your Service
Eighteen years is a long time, especially when you consider that Bill Clinton was still in office the last time A Tribe Called Quest released an album. Luckily for fans, 2016 changed all that.
From the moment Q-Tip launches into a savage freestyle on the lounge-friendly opener 'Space Program', you know you're in for a treat. You also quickly realize that this is the same boundary breaking act that you knew and loved twenty years ago.
The three-piece rarely miss a beat, tearing apart the current social climate on the rebellious 'We The People...' and delivering a laid back vocal trade-off on the blurry 'Wall Of Sound', kicking off the album with a bang. But at a running-time in the region of an hour long, there's certainly no shortage of superb deep cuts too. Make sure to hang around for the spaced-out jam 'Melatonin', the left-field bumbler 'Movin Backwards' and the abstract synth tripper 'Conrad Tokyo'
Some of the lyrics are a little too on the nose at times, but these instances are few and far between on what is otherwise a fantastic comeback from the '90s hip-hop pioneers.