Critics' conspiracy
January 30, 2020

"Stunning growth and progression" on J Hus' new album ‘Big Conspiracy’

"More clearly sketches out his development from displaced African boy to imprisoned British man, and it is by far the best J Hus has been on record as a performer and storyteller" - Pitchfork says about the new album by the London rapper (gave it grade 8.0). Alexis Petridis heard it sooner and chose it as his Album of the week (gave it 4 stars, of 5), because of J Hus' - "musical transitions. They feel natural and unforced, an expression of growing up in London surrounded by an array of different cultural influences, tied together not just by J Hus’s flow, but his pop smarts". The NME appreciates how J Hus artfully melded together various genres – Afrobeat, grime, dancehall, hip-hop, R&B, bashment – into a whole new genre "afroswing", adding the album is a "rounded project with polished edges that sparkle in parts; a perfect counterweight to the introspective lyrics throughout" (5 of 5 stars).