Will the real Slim Shady please stand up? Credit: Michel Linssen/Redferns

Even a deaf man could hear that ‘Revival’ was a mess when it was released at the tail end of 2017. Maybe a case of too many cooks. Maybe Em was surrounded by too many ‘yes’ men. Whatever the case, the marriage between beats and rhymes in hip-hop is a sacred thing and one song into ‘Revival’ it was obvious that divorce papers needed to be served, immediately. Whether it’s Em’s obsession with rap/rock hybrids (his use of Joan Jett & the Blackhearts’ ‘I Love Rock ’n’ Roll’ for ‘Remind Me’ should be considered a crime against music), the terrible choice of beats that at times stifle some pretty significant lyrical content from getting out the gate, or the fact that ‘Walk on Water’ sounds like someone stole some Eminem a cappella files and pasted them over the top of an instrumental meant for Emeli Sande, ‘Revival’ suffers from a lack of quality control. Em might have since addressed the album and its critics (me being one of them) on ‘Kamikaze’, but it still doesn’t excuse this awful body of work. Read more by clicking here: NME

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