Hoodlum Priest专辑介绍：by Ned Raggett Released only in a limited edition of 1,200, Beneath the Pavement is a fierce, creative, and thrilling slice of U.K. instrumental electronic music, but one that values the spoken word in its own way. Rather than rapping himself or using guest performers, Thompson splices in pointed samples of speeches from rallies and film dialogue to make his points, mixing wry irony with darkly critical stabs at the establishment as broadly defined. Thompson's not making philosophy, admittedly, but that's not the point -- the attacks on cops, a culture of violence, and more and the concurrent need to rise up against idiocy work here on the immediate level as well as lingering a bit. His musical material can be as warmly beautiful and mysterious as the contemporaneous Bristol trip-hop explosion -- check the swooping, haunting strings on both versions of "Rev." -- but there's an upfront energy and anger that make the m...