Music Review: The Bennett brothers are totally unique voices in Swedish hip hop

I almost get breathing difficulties when the former soccer players kick like bullets. Short rhymes about celebrity and fucking, partying and future thinking.

My current month-long quarantine where the clock is ticking, the cat is asleep and the coffee is boiling is a party like it's 1949 compared to the progress of these twins in lisebergic roller coaster style.

The Gothenburg's bit-lean, bit-hot single-rowers are often (and as before) Western-fanned with humor and humor.

Sammy and Johnny (as the two are also called) move so clockwise, almost mathematically perfect, into the raw, angular, disturbing, modern sound world that has become their signature.

That is how they took the soul of Sweden with a stiff ball at the debut track "Falang" and the first ep "Hundra80" 2016.

It was then, and the following year - on the ep. Reck with classics such as Evidence and Looking ahead - we understood that the stage was rewarded with a unique voice. One who did not slavishly slave about money and branded garments, or came up with the melodic style of earlier generations. Like so many of the others.

And that's how Bennett continued to reign for a somewhat sparse but almost uninterrupted career.

"And your name" marks the top of it this far. But the album is by no means a financial statement for the two who, not long ago, studied to become an occupational therapist or accounting economist.

Rather, it points upwards forwards. The brothers want to show that they can do more than just spearhead themselves. As they do on introductory Say to a friend, Knark or previously released Pedigree (with Jaqe and dog food advertising).

Together with their latest producers Richard LIOHN Zastenker and Johannes Klahr (name we will hear from in large contexts in the future), they transform almost half the festival into broad radio hits where Fricky, Lorentz, YEMI and Norwegian Lil Halima contribute with well-balanced guest games.

And all this in under 25 zero superfluous minutes. How cocky can you be? At a time when several of their colleagues, as part of the curse of streaming technology, are putting in double the number of minutes of thoughtlessness.

Not even the cover is left to chance. A picture that may represent Sammy and Johnny, but that has been crumpled up a bit. I have to look an extra time.

Extremely painful are the manipulated faces to the tones of closing Black. Here, the brothers take another step further in their narrative as they post sour Swedish everyday racism on the table.

Otherwise, this photo feels liberatingly unpredictable. Quite in line with what we hear on this full-length. "And your name?" is a nine track big swarm of styles and temperament without turning it into an experiment in "Best in Test" for that matter. At the same time, it becomes a dream of a virus-free day where everything was possible. Everything, all at once. What a fantastic debut!