Ghostface Killah: Adrian Younge Presents Twelve Reasons to Die II

The hardest working dude in the Wu-Tang Clan continues to spark with his third release in 2015.

Much of this recent prolific streak seems down to Ghostface's fondness for collaboration, with Sour Soul benefiting from the input of BadBadNotGood and this release re-aligning him with producer and soundtrack composer Adrian Younge.

As on Twelve Reasons to Die, there's an overblown narrative about his alter-ego Tony Starks and his troubles with the DeLuca crime family. No one can spin a tale like Ghost and these brilliantly outlined and occasionally outlandish yarns are perfectly matched with Younge's sweeping, swaying, swaggering jazz and soul-bedecked soundscapes. There's a gaggle of guests from Wu soldiers like RZA and Raekwon to new guns like Vince Staples, but the real joy comes in hearing Ghost concoct a rack of off-the-wall tongue-twisters which truly fly high. Linearlabsmusic.com