Reclaim Australia by A.B. Original

Reclaim Australia, the debut album from hip hop duo A.B. Original, came out on Golden Era Records in November 2016, and it doesn't whisper. The name stands for Always Black, Original, and both members are Indigenous Australians: Briggs, a Yorta Yorta man, does the rapping, and Trials, who is Ngarrindjeri, handles production. The title hurls the name of a far-right political party straight back at it.

What follows is furious, pointed and impossible to ignore, tearing into police brutality, Indigenous deaths in custody and Australia Day, and "January 26" is the track the countdowns picked up. It reached number 10 on the ARIA Albums Chart and cleaned up at awards time: the Australian Music Prize, Australian Album of the Year at the 2016 J Awards, and Best Independent Album or EP plus Best Independent Hip Hop Album at the 2017 AIR Independent Music Awards.

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