Dollars To Pounds: The Hitman And Hervé

Another week, another ton of records with Joshua “Hervé” Harvey’s grubby fingerprints all over them. Like our hero Wiley, Hervé’s output is so prolific and scattershot that it’s difficult to know where to begin, especially since the quality control knob clearly worked itself loose some time ago. But messy and erratic is a lot more fun than grimly reliable. Late last year, he went too far with an EP of obvious tunes that sampled Jacko’s “Thriller” and the Rocky theme. But without doing anything vastly different, his new album of collaborations with the likes of Toddla T, Drop The Lime, Fake Blood and Trevor Loveys under the Machines Don’t Care moniker puts Hervé right back in the game.

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