I think it’s fair to say at this point in 2012 that Broke With Expensive Taste, the forthc

oming debut from Azealia Banks, who I have featured on here several times, is one of the releases I am most looking forward to this year.

Having been voted the coolest person in music at the end of 2011 by NME (Which can be a poisoned chalice), sh

e has been hanging around the UK charts with ‘212’ seemingly pretty much since then, and her new EP 1991, is due soon.

Be

fore the album comes out (due in September), there will be a mixtape entitled Fantastic. Taken from it is this rather fine track called ‘Jumanji’ which is another fine example of why listening to her is -in

the finest way possible – like being on the receiving end of quickfire. It’s co-produced by Glaswegian Hudson Mohawke, friend and associate of Rust

ie, who I championed on thi

s blog back in 2008.

play it loud…