They might not be the favourites to take home this years prize, but this Edinburgh electro trio could win votes for their genre-straddling music and Mercury-friendly backstory
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Who? Experimental trio from Edinburgh whose music generates a meltdown from critics who try to describe their colossal genre-straddling. The NME said they were locked somewhere between De La Soul and 3T, but reimagined for the hipster generation, while the Skinny described them as a Liberian/Nigerian/Scottish psychedelic hip-hop electro boy band. Young Fathers are lloysious Massaquoi, born in Liberia, Kayus Bankole, whose parents are Nigerian migrants, and Graham G Hastings, who hails from Edinburghs Drylaw housing estate. They met at an under-16s hip-hop event in Edinburgh. After an attempt as an R&B boy band during their younger years weve all been there they formed Young Fathers, making military marching anthems that combine hip-hop, pop, rock and African music, as well as all sorts of bleeps, fuzz and melodies.
The album: Dead
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