The Shine (LP - 2023)

by Scalper

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Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Breathe (SINGLE - 2024), The Shine (LP - 2023), I'm Life featuring Nawazish Ali Khan (SINGLE - 2022), Stars In Their Eyes (SINGLE - 2022), Bismillah (SINGLE - 2022), Tainted Love (SINGLE - 2021), Toxicity Toxifies (SINGLE - 2021), Silence Speaks (SINGLE - 2021), and 12 more. , and , .

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1.	Bismillah 02:04	info	buy track
2.	Silence Speaks 02:31	info	buy track
3.	My Precious 02:22	info	buy track
4.	Stars In Their Eyes 02:04	info	buy track
5.	Toxicity Toxifies 03:26	info	buy track
6.	Tainted Love 02:38	info	buy track
7.	The Game 03:49	info	buy track
8.	Mesmerised 03:36	info	buy track
9.	Tainted Love Reprise 03:17	info	buy track
10.	Shine 02:49	info	buy track
11.	I'm Life 03:38	info	buy track

about

Following his 2020 critically acclaimed album The Beast and The Beauty, London born Pakistani hip-hop artist Scalper brings to light The Shine, his 5th solo LP. The former album was emotional and intimate, as he was processing the recent loss of his mother.

The Shine is him breathing and considering life again, seeking balance within the confusion. It is about love, learning, society and self understanding. The Shine is an uplifting and thought provoking LP with a slowcore hip-hop style that you won’t hear anywhere else.

Within this self-produced hip-hop album, Scalper brings new musical and lyrical perspectives, both philosophical and highly intimate. He uses metaphors, repetition and alliteration to deliver social commentary, question the nature of existence, and the brutality of us. He has not stepped aside from his minimalist beat sound which suits his voice so well, but in this album he also plays with pop music, simple melodies and even a children’s choir on the track Toxicity Toxifies. Bismillah sets the tone by welcoming the listener to the album with a greeting, and the album ends with the haunting I’m Life, featuring Sufi Qawwali singer Nawazish Ali Khan. Throughout the album, the breadth and diversity of Scalper’s production skills are on full display.

Scalper’s baritone flow is something like an inner voice coming from above or beyond, which carries both comfort and some kind of truth for yourself.

His poetry is revealing and crystal clear. The Shine is nourishment for our troubled times. It will feed you with emotions, questions, comfort and kindness.