FAKEMINK

Twenty-year-old London rapper Vincenzo Camille, better known as fakemink, makes disorienting sugar-high electroclash rap. On paper, it sounds as if he should be of a piece with the 2020s class of overstimulating Gen Z internet rappers such as Nettspend and OsamaSon. But although he is, in some sense, part of that scene, his music is also far more linear and melodic, and more indebted to the past.

His best songs, many of which were produced by the American electronic duo Suzy Sheer, utilise beats that sound like fast, euphoric flips of songs from the Skins soundtrack; the viral hit ‘Easter Pink’ could pass for a mid-2000s indie dance hit if not for fakemink’s fast, very 2020s rapping, while ‘Makka’, a collab with Mechatok and Ecco2k, contains echoes of Bloc Party’s ‘Intimacy’, thanks to an insistent, extremely melodic guitar line.