Members of veteran NYC rap collective the Wu-Tang Clan have always been wide-ranging with their references. Now, to the cast of martial artists, mafiosi and chess masters thronging their records, Ghostface Killah has added a Homeric hero of sorts. On his 11th solo album, a man returns home after a nine-year absence to find a suitor lording it over his turf, where his name has “faded out like some old dead socks”. The ensuing drama is as subtle as a bludgeon to the head, but the interplay between its main personages – including AZ and Kool G Rap – proves these old-timers have fight in them yet.
