Angles by Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip

Angles, the debut album from Essex duo Dan le Sac vs Scroobius Pip, came out on Sunday Best on 12 May 2008 in the UK, with America getting it that September. For a record this sharp, it had gloriously humble beginnings: most of it was made in a shed belonging to a friend of Pip's and in Dan le Sac's back bedroom. Dan, from Corringham, handles the beats, programming, keyboards and guitars; Pip, from neighbouring Stanford-le-Hope, is the poet out front, with a stage name that borrows, and deliberately misspells, an Edward Lear title.

The formula is simple and oddly thrilling: skittering electronic beats under words that get sung, spoken and rapped by turns, Pip's voice flat, unhurried and bone dry. Their calling card was the first single, "Thou Shalt Always Kill", and The Logic of Chance followed.

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