The Squid Ninjaz are an eight man crew from Wales who share harking similarities to the Wu Tang, according to their PR release. And not just cos they have eight members either.
No, apparently the grimy production also reminds us of RZA's best beats - yes best beats - circa '94. Admittedly it also says it sounds like RZA's beats thrown in the tumble dryer with a Welsh accent, but that is still high praises.
This is the first release from their forthcoming album, "Revenge of the Blowfish", and it comes with two tracks to whet your appetite, both with big basslines and bigger drums. "Wowzers" features SN members Joe Blow, Cevantis and Skamma, trading verses over a beat more twisted than Polanski's babysitting techniques.
It's all been a bit quiet round these parts over the past few weeks, what with us relocating and not having any internet access. Plus all that festive cheer being rammed down our throats, kinda drained all the creativity out of us.
Luckily free internet access is everywhere these days and so I've finally managed to drag myself away from the festering mass of turkey, chocolate coins and neverending Tim Allen movies, to see what we've missed out on since we were last on it. And where better to start than the UK compilation we dropped a fortnight ago, thanks to our American friends at aboveGround Magazine.
You really can't sleep in this writing gig, or the whole world slips past you without you even realising. Remember the review we did for the Squid Ninjaz single? That was only a couple of weeks ago and at the time no one seemed to know when the album was going to be released.
Then it arrived in the post with a release date of 7 December on the PR blurb, so I thought I'd leave it a little while before getting the review online. Then, more thanks to Twatter than anything else, I saw that it has already been released and we'd completely missed it. Bollocks. 
