It’s been nearly three years since Kero One’s excellent Windmills of The Soul so we’ve been a bit impatient to hear the new single from the forthcoming new album, Early Believers.

‘When The Sunshine’ is a proper downtempo soulful mix of hip-hop and jazzy funk as Westbeech (fresh from Jazzanova’s ‘I Can See’ from Of All Things) sings the chorus to Kero One’s rap of love and happiness; great guitar lick with a slow groovy beat.

‘Welcome To The Bay’ is about the San Francisco Bay Area rather than a summer bay of sun, sea and sand. The 2008 date check is a little unfortunate as this single is due out this week but Kero’s tale of the shock of him and his penniless Korean parents re-locating to the land of hyphy (and much more); he moans “burgers and fries barely eatable” which made me smile as a veggie

Windmills of The Soul was Reeemix magazine’s Best Hip Hop Album of 2006 and on the basis of these 2 tracks, Early Believers is likely to be just as good, if not better. We’ll keep you posted.

Reviewed: Kero One - When The Sunshine Comes / Welcome To The Bay (Plug Label) Release date: 23 February 2009
Tracklisting:
1 When The Sunshine Comes featuring Ben Westbeech (4:29)
2 Welcome To The Bay (4:29)

Links:
www.pluglabel.com/artists/kero
www.myspace.com/keroone
www.myspace.com/benwestbeech
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyphy