Blog: State Magazine

I'm New Here's opening two minutes will stop you dead in your tracks every time you hear it – even if you repeat it over and over again, and you will. The intro 'On Coming from a Broken Home' beautifully ushers in the record on a wave of electronic murmurs and submerged synths before Gil Scott-Heron 's voice, that voice, gets a few things off his chest. This is his first record since Spirits in 1994 and the last 16 years haven't been kind – a seven-circle spiral of jail, addiction and illness that's just about reduced [...]