Named for the minimum quantity of milk he would imbibe each day while studying at his alma mater Peckham Academy, UK MC Pinty has released another selection of brief but captivating hip hop jams that make themselves right at home in refurbished '90s house style tracks on Tomorrow's Where I'm At. The young rhythming raconteur, who runs with King Krule, Jamie Isaac, among others, considers himself a garage rapper and poet by trade, which is probably why his signature style is able to blow up the block the way it does, despite its understated elocution. Pinty has a smeary drawl to his flow that lends to the impression that he's not so much speaking as painting a lyrical picture. When woven over, under, and through cushy jazz breaks, softly lit electro ripples, and down-lined drum and bass, it creates the impression that Pinty is able to command time and space with his voice and presence of mind. He speaks and the world slows down to listen. While hip house has a reputation for being corny, Pinty finds a way to make each track on Tomorrow's Where I'm At uniquely pop in its respective shell. As for highlights, there are many, but amongst these, two immediately jump to mind: the juicy glide of "Comfort Me" where Pinty is persuasive in his pleadings for companionship as his word wind around the elegant accompaniment of Emma-Jean Thackray's trumpet, and the spacy synth, led patter and crackle of the velvet-lined but cagey, wall-climber "Another Lost Soul," a track which allows our hero to really flex the bonafides of his UKG flow. You've heard C+C Music Factory? Forget it. Let Pinty hook you up with the A+ material.
