Roll Deep
In At the Deep End
Album · Rock · 2005
In interviews promoting their 2005 debut’s release, Roll Deep were blunt about their ambition to take grime high into the charts. That aim is explicit in the blithe R&B of “The Avenue” but In At the Deep End isn’t simply about softening the UK underground’s edges. “Show You” cuts its rhythms and loops to the hypnotic stutter of alternative hip-hop while “Heat Up” and charged posse cut “When I’m ’Ere” are grime at its most captivating.
In At the Deep End
Roll Deep
In interviews promoting their 2005 debut’s release, Roll Deep were blunt about their ambition to take grime high into the charts. That aim is explicit in the blithe R&B of “The Avenue” but In At the Deep End isn’t simply about softening the UK underground’s edges. “Show You” cuts its rhythms and loops to the hypnotic stutter of alternative hip-hop while “Heat Up” and charged posse cut “When I’m ’Ere” are grime at its most captivating.
