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CASISDEAD might not live in our world, but his music reflects its seedy underbelly. His debut album 'Famous Last Words' is a fully realised expansion of the dystopian futurism that has captivated audiences since he first announced himself in 2013. Over the past decade, he’s dipped in and out of the shadows, blessing fans with cult hits while maintaining his anonymity, shunning media attention and donning various masks; a rejection of the spotlight that’s helped to create folklore around a rapper who’s widely regarded as one of the UK’s most inventive lyricists.

His highly anticipated LP 'Famous Last Words' is as much a sci-fi film as it is a rap record, a labyrinth of vice, crime and faded glamour, soundtracked by synthpop production that wouldn’t be out of place on a David Sylvian or Tears For Fears album. The listener steps through a portal into a realm narrated by CAS, whose command of storytelling drops you right into the underground of a city where he is the main character in a shady network of gangsters, girls and drug deals. However, 'Famous Last Words' isn’t a story of bravado or posturing; much of the album deals in themes of loss, regret and suspicion, a persona constantly self-reflecting amongst the madness that surrounds him.

While CASISDEAD might have been lauded by globally-renowned rappers such as Skepta, Giggs, Dizzee and A$AP Rocky, he’s in a lane of his own. His ability to world-build, create personas and channel the sleazy allure of life in a big city bears as much similarity to an artist like Lana Del Rey as it does his rap contemporaries. At the dawn of artificial intelligence the world is at a turning point, on the verge of implosion.