‘Rewind’ Featuring Diane Birch
Release Date: 28th January 2013
Label: Island Records

(Original & Nu-Logic Remixes)

“There are some people that will be remembered for creating something special, he’s definitely one of those people”- Wretch 32

“This guy’s got some kind of genius. He’s got his own unique style, that’s what’s going to make him stay around” – Labrinth

“He’s someone I’ve admired for years…I think he is one of the UK’s most talented rappers” – Ed Sheeran

‘Whip-smart Eminem of Essex…caustic urban realism…undeniable strife-born brilliance’ – Q

‘One of the few MCs daring to say something different’ – Dazed & Confused

Devlin releases his new single, ‘Rewind’ featuring Diane Birch on the 28th January 2013. It is taken from his forthcoming second album, A Moving Picture, released through Island Records on the 4th February 2013.

‘Rewind’ follows the release of Devlin’s recent top 10 hit, ‘(All Along The) Watch Tower’, and further defines this incredibly talented Dagenham born artist as one of the finest, and most creative young rappers in the UK today.

Teaming up with US singer-songwriter Diane Birch, Rewind combines both her mournful vocal, tremulous strings, and Devlin’s forlorn reflection on the friends he has lost over the years that can’t be with him to enjoy his success.

Devlin; “The journey I’ve been on these past few years, I wish they could be here to witness it,” he says. “A couple of relatives, and friends I’ve lost from the manor I grew up in – it upsets me that they’re not here to enjoy it with me.”

The general feel of the new album ‘A Moving Picture’ is epic and, not surprisingly given its title, cinematic. The music is huge, filling every scene, a blend of grimy images and orchestral grandeur. And the songs are anthemic and dramatic, bittersweet symphonies of synths and strings over which Devlin offers a sometimes sweepingly panoramic, sometimes up close and grittily personal, perspective on life in the capital and its dead-end satellite suburbs.

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