A Breath Of Fresh Attire: Parental Advisory - The Mitchell Brothers

I bought this album by garage rap act The Mitchell Brothers based on the fact that it was produced by The Beats, which is Mike Skinner from The Streets and Ted Mayhem, and a couple of listens on Youtube that were promising. There is a whole story about how they first came to the attention of Mike Skinner the lead singer and writer of The Streets and this is alluded to on the CD sleeve. The two London based singers that make up the band, Teddy and Tony are not actually brothers but cousins, I guess The Mitchell Cousins for a name just does not get to cash in on the better known Mitchell Brothers from Eastenders and to be honest the two squabble like siblings on some of ...  Read the complete review

"A Breath Of Fresh Attire" was the debut release from The Mitchell Brothers. It was released in 2005, and had the London-based duo come with a fresh new sound whilst showing how originally they could take the UK Hip Hop scene with a style similar to the humorous approach of Mike Skinner (whose label they work off). They are in fact cousins Owura Nyanin and Kofi Hanson, but go under the names Tony and Teddy Mitchell (respectively). 1. "F**k Me? F**k You!" To kick things off, you have them show that they are about to come with something very original with this album, as you here them coming with strong Cocky accents as they raps, ...  Read the complete review

A Breath of Fresh Attire is the 2005 debut album from London rappers 'The Mitchell Brothers', consisting of cousins Teddy Mitchell (Kofi Hanson) and Tony Mitchell (Owura Nyanin), and released on Mike Skinners label 'The Beats'. The cousins got their name because of how close they were as kids, they would always be seen together and people would say they were 'as close as Phil and Grant', they are often called the 'Geezers with skills' also. Rumour has it Mike Skinner became aware of the group when Teddy Mitchell saw Skinner in a bank and slipped a demo tape with his mobile number into Mike's bag, before long Skinner and the Mitchells were sitting in a chip shop signing ...  Read the complete review

A glance at the track list will tell you that there is a lot of swearing on ths UK urban garage acts debut album. The Mitchell Brothers are actually cousins rather than brothers and this album is produced ion conjunction with the Street and on some of the tracks you do get some Mike Skinner vocals. Hailing from North London you can see the Street album in a number of tracks o this album which is an entertaining listen with some good variations, much of the themes are related to urban life and issues with the police as well as relationships. GORGIE is one of those slower tempo relationship based songs wherethe different vocal styles of the two ...  Read the complete review