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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Killian Fox

18+: Trust review – art-school R&B duo not quite as subversive as they think

18+
18+ ‘ooze sex and a glitchy sense of unease’.

18+ started distributing their seductive, stripped-back R&B online three years ago, but with a Google-proof name they managed to keep their identities obscure. We now know who they are – American art-school graduates Samia Mirza and Justin Swinburne – but their music retains an inscrutable air. Trust moves at a stoned pace, oozing sex and a glitchy sense of unease, though it’s never clear whether it’s critiquing its excesses (Forgiven contains references to sibling incest) or revelling in them. Though perhaps not as subversive as it strives to be, there are some great moments: the cawing sample on Crow is inspired.

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