Trap music is probably most identifiable by its snares, which sound like somebody riffling a deck of metallic cards, but it’s also conspicuous for its contextual roots – those being “the trap”: both a crack house and the general term for the drug-dealing lifestyle. Unlike Beyoncé’s sanitised iteration of the genre, Fetty Wap’s disarmingly buoyant Trap Queen stays true to trap’s bleak original subject matter. Enjoy with the aid of cognitive dissonance on the rapper’s pair of UK dates (O2 Institute Birmingham, 27 May; Eventim Apollo, W6, 29 May) …
Not long ago, Norwich teens Let’s Eat Grandma were doing Ed Sheeran covers. Now they’re making alt-R&B with the ethereal eccentricity of Kate Bush, such is the crash course in cool the internet can freely provide. Their debut single Deep Six Textbook is very enjoyable, even if the breathy, high-pitched vocals do sound a bit like the work of a six year-old Ellie Goulding (Electrowerkz, N1, 1 Jun) …
Indie veterans the Cribs are to play a big outdoor homecoming show in Leeds’s Millennium Square (22 Jul). Support comes from Thurston Moore, Pulled Apart By Horses and Menace Beach.
