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- Summary: The latest full-length release from British rapper Dave features guest appearances by James Blake, Nicole Blakk, Jim Legxacy, KANO, and Tems.
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- Record Label: Universal
- Genre(s): Rap
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Oct 30, 2025Dave is a fantastically smart, sharp lyricist, more than capable of making it work – The Boy With the Harp feels fascinating, rather than self-indulgent – just as he’s technically skilled enough to make the album’s muted sound a bonus: it focuses attention on his voice and exemplary flow.
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Nov 7, 2025It all goes to confirm that Dave has grown from hot young talent to a true master storyteller.
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Oct 30, 2025This is a staggeringly powerful record. Continually evading easy descriptors, Dave pushes his art to higher levels.
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Nov 10, 2025TBWPTH is skeletal, grandiose, and contemplative, a web of contradictions where answers come with questions of their own; caught between darkness and light, the U.K. legend wrings out some of his most compelling meditations yet.
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Oct 30, 2025Although the record is vivid, striking and thought-provoking – with nearly every song on this album a deep, pensive sonic sulk – the south Londoner’s voice is beginning to slip further away from a generation he intended to represent: one that’s done overthinking and just wanting to feel.
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Oct 30, 2025On songs such as this [Fairchild] and Chapter 16 Dave sounds focused, engaging: ingredients of a great album are here, but he’s yet to stick the landing.
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Nov 4, 2025That sort of state-of-society demonstration, which has always distinguished Dave from his peers in UK rap, is hardly present on his newest album. And it doesn’t help that The Boy Who Plays the Harp is considerably less dynamic when it comes to production.