REVIEWS....

RW Hedges - "Almanac" reviews:

"RW Hedges has one of the great rock and roll voices..and what makes a good rock and roll voice is that it’s entirely unique, which RW Hedges is. Every vocal melody is good, also rare. The music’s kind of liquid. A lot’s going on at once, but you can’t necessarily pick everything apart, really the best sort of orchestration. It’s 2007 by way of 66-68. RW Hedges’ record is as good as the Kink’s “Village Green” or “Arthur,” while also having more post-indie rock melancholy, and not sounding at all like retread. It’s its own thing..Have a listen.."
- HENRY BAUM (North of Sunset) -
Rread the full review at: http://hbaum.blogspot.com/2007/09/rw-hedges.html

"Almanac is one of the most commercial albums I've heard ever... radioplay will be like letting a virus out"
- Keith Levene (PiL)

CARPETFACE - AA 7" single "Spread It Around / Realeyesation" reviews:

>"Carpetface could be Wembley's one-man answer to the Beastie Boys.
No style or genre is too daring for this man". - DJ FORMAT

" ...original sounding..if you just like music and will give anything a go,
you could just find that you like this" - BRITISH HIPHOP.co.uk

"the uplifting anthem of positivity resurfaces from carpetface's `dubbed out psychedelic country meets urban meltdown LP " - ROB BIRCH (STEREO MC'S)

"This is the kind of music that actually reminds you of why you got involved in the music industry in the first place - refreshing, innovative, funky as hell and highly playable! In an ideal world, Carpetface would rule the charts.
Here's hoping..."-NAT ILLIMINE (Itch FM / Undercover Magazine)

"just in time for valentine's day our favourite beatsmith carpetface comes up with two delightful new tunes. if bands like the bees and the zutons get you all excited then this is for you. low slung swingin' grooves and relaxed lyrics grace both sides and it has an overall lo-fi charm. do not miss". - ROUGH TRADE RECORDS

"Another ecclectically fused singalong banger!
..big people's hiphop with a ragga ting that tru skool heads and real music lovers will appreciate. Big up Carpetface for daring to be unrestricted with his influences...CF is anything BUT the same old same old and this is a good place to start checking this refreshingly original artist if you haven't already"
-TJ CHILL ( ZULU NATION/ ITCH FM)

" 8/10...Love is better than money..." - STRANGER Magazine

CARPETFACE - ALBUM REVIEWS: "Have Mic Will Travel"

“Can’t stop playing it!” – Vice Magazine

"Move over Kool Keith!"- Time Out New York

"an essential release from one of our greatest unknown talents..."-ROUGH TRADE

”…a huge offering… the variety of sounds and vibes is astonishing… completely original and refreshing…. There is really nobody out there trying to cover as much ground as Carpetface does… Concurrent with this myriad of skills is an eclectic and diverse musical taste …make sure you support..” BRITISHHIPHOP.co.uk march 2006

“….Carpetface plays cat and mouse with the beat….even in his musical element, the MC likes to spring a surprise or two into his collection. Eclectic and clearly taking from all corners of the musical spectrum, this is one who like a brainsplurge on record”. CROSSFIRE Magazine

" Without a doubt Carpetface has got to be one of the hardest working artists in the Uk and one of the most original…...a completely refreshing album totally different to any other release out there at the moment, definite value for your hard-earned dosh..well worth purchasing" CRITCAL BEATDOWN Magazine

"this album eldudes definition...so eclectic in style it
literally freaks from one schizophrenic montage to the next.
..be prepared to be taken on a musical extravaganza " - STRANGER Magazine

"Truly excellent...this is the perfect album for anyone with
a broad taste in music who like to be taken on a musical journey" 24/7 Magazine

Jockey Slut features Carpetface Oct 2003: "sharp, dry wit and laid-back approach." "engaging dub, funk and guitar pop backdrop"

"Muso's Guide & magazine" live review
GUILFEST, Stoke Park, Guilford, Fri 4 July 2003
"Carpetface (with appropriate visage shrubbery) is a wiry shape with some great rhymes, tunes (I refuse to write "choons" this is a Radio 2 sponsored doings after all) and just enough stage presence to grossly upstage his predecessor."
Holly Noseda.

GRIP Magazine- review of the CHIP BARN show, Manchester
"Highlight of the evening"
"politically charged"
PLUS!!! There's a review of that same night and a new interview with Carpetface on properly top Mancunian website www.propertop.com check it out!!

Jockey Slut Magazine singles review June 2003
"LET THE HARVEST COMMENCE" (NewBias)

"The title track of the new EP from this capital-based musical cuckoo is a jazz-rap concoction built on freeform piano and held together by the eponymous rug-mug's jolly chorus...... 'Better Do Right' finds a King Tubby sample for a haunting intro before employing its own Mogadon drum'n'bass patterns. Another good'un."
SY

Careless Talk Costs Lives Magazine,
issue 4 May/June 2003
live review, Barfly, London

"Mr Carpetface does Sly Stone impressionistic rhymes (funky as an
Angela Davies fuck) to a backing tape of Seventies filmscores. When he
stops, he morphs into Serpico before was shot in the face before the
drug deal gone bad"

Jockey Slut Review of Friday Night Sniper, December 2002: Personally, we can't stand those reviews that go 'imagine Renegade Soundwave and Prince Paul smoking a crack pipe with Syd Barrett', but there's really no other way to approach this, because 'Friday Night Sniper' is as all over the place as it's possible to be in the space of a few minutes. Bludgeoning bass, snippets of daft sound and a couple of chrmingly sung choruses, especially on the great 'New Bias Everyone', disguise rapping which is scrappier than the dog that ruined Scooby Doo. Brilliantly Barking.

Rough Trade 12' label for Friday Night Sniper: superb 5 track debut from british emcee / producer carpetface. dancefloor friendly hip hop but with ver interesting, tripped out production and cool sung shoruses that work without being cheesy. recommended!

www.playlouder.com
INTRODUCING: CARPETFACE!
Beard-hop skulduggery
Live review - 16.oct.02 at Mind The Gap.

PlayLouder bore witness to what the unimaginative will no doubt call "the hip-hop Badly Drawn Boy" last night, and we thought we'd better share it with you. "It" is a man, called Carpetface, and he is quite excellent. Super-tight ketamine rhymes about Thatcher and squats and stuff, extra funky beats, and a singing voice that's somewhere between Ian Brown and Damon Albarn, and is quite amazing."It"s stupid," explained 'Face after the show. "Most record labels are either like, 'take out the singing and it's real hip-hop and we can use it' or 'take out the rapping and it's perfect and we can use it'". Dumb Indeed. But no matter -- Carpetface releases a single, 'The Friday Night Sniper EP' through Newbias Industries on October 28th. And you'll be seeing a lot more of him. Soon... Have you seen Carpetface? Nice beard, huh? TALK!

Bunch of 45's
playlouder.com
singles review 21/10/02 - 27/10/02

This may well turn out to be the best year for British music since, well ages ago. When did the Specials turn up? Yeah, then. See, not only has this year given us Mike Skinner, The Darkness, The 80s Matchbox and Big Brovaz, but it has also bestowed upon us the mighty bearded colossus that is Carpetface.
SINGLE OF THE WEEK !!
Carpetface raps, croons, creates funky, funky beats, lush soundscapes, headfucks, radio jingles, and really cool pop songs. 'The Friday Night Sniper' EP's opener, finds "the rhythm giver givin' gibbon rhythm", rabbiting about Thatcher-styled self-love and brain-pain like Ian Brown raised on Kool Keith. 'Friday Night Sniper' would have DJ Shadow creaming, and 'You're The Industry?', for good or ill, will be the record that make Damon Albarn start rapping. Carpetface's style is superb - he's unwittingly fused Blur, Badly Drawn Boy, Vadim, the Beasties and Pitman and could well be a global superstar by next Christmas, if he keeps whacking out hooks like the one on 'New Bias Everyone'. Crazy fool.

www.ukhh.com

Dancing gimps, lobsters for hands, videos on MTV, vinyl and gibbons. Welcome to the world of Carpetface. A friendly workaholic whose self-produced, self released debut EP "The Friday Night Sniper" mixes humour, heavy beats, samples, live instruments, singing, rapping and a hefty dollop of madness together on one 12" sized black plastic platter. Conventional boom-bap this ain't. In the interests of science UKHH.com sent its most dispensable scribe, The Twizt, along to see what on earth was going on.
Go to http://www.ukhh.com/features/interviews/carpetface/index.html
for the interview.