Genesis Owusu’s Redstar Wu & The Worldwide Scourge gets a fierce 19 May review

Genesis Owusu’s Redstar Wu & The Worldwide Scourge received a major 19 May critical spotlight, giving the 15 May album another strong release-week push. The Ghanaian-Australian artist has always worked like a genre shapeshifter with a political nervous system, and this record appears to be one of his most direct statements yet.

Where earlier albums used vivid characters and world-building to explore depression, racism, class pressure and survival, Redstar Wu & The Worldwide Scourge seems to aim more openly at the present moment: capitalism, authoritarianism, online toxicity, celebrity culture and social fracture. What makes Owusu compelling is that he does not simply lecture over beats. He turns the argument into motion. The album folds together electro-punk, funk, drum’n’bass, indie-pop, post-industrial textures and rap performance, creating music that feels like a protest sign, a comic-book panel and a dance-floor panic attack all at once.

The 19 May review underlines how Owusu remains one of the rare alternative artists who can make serious critique feel physically alive. For indie and alternative readers, this is not background listening. It is a record built to shake the room and then ask why the room was built that way in the first place. Source: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/genesis-owusu-redstar-wu-and-the-worldwide-scourge/