Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Collaboration across genres can be seen as more than acceptance, it is a quality of endeavour that pushes not only boundaries but the mind as well, it makes the soul grow in ways that can only be expressed as nurturing, understanding, and creatively beautiful.

What In The World is apt phrase when we first hear the way that a relationship between two different styles can not only work, it can be enlightening, and that is exactly what the merging of music finds as the exciting track by Montao fills the air and we understand the fruit of endeavour and the brilliance of association.

What In The World brings together Montao (Liverpool’s Andy Kettle), hiphop veteran Slug from Atmosphere, Koncept, and Lane Shuler in a single of great repute, more than just a way of performance, it is a proposition of epic association.

The theme at hand is one that is always sadly relevant, but perhaps one that is tinged with hope as we continue to find artists willing to put their name to raising awareness of every matter and ill that besieges us, that gives us concern that we are living in a bowl of despair, of ever-increasing hatred and social wickedness.

The single is not only elegant, but also fascinating, it is buoyant, fierce, dramatic; and across every moment the sinews of the muscle flex from the foursome involved, and not once does the observation or the grip on the listener loosen.

A terrifically insightful single, a gem of the genre and beyond, and one that brings debate to the process. Understandably cool.

Ian D. Hall