Beastie Boys – Hot Sauce Committee Part 2

This material has been in existence for pushing on two years now and was originally to be released as Part 1, which will now be released at some unknown later date. Confused? Well, it’s nowhere near the head-trip those expecting another Hello Nasty are bound to experience. Rather than pushing forwards, the Boys have spun the hands of time anticlockwise to create a truly old-school hip-hop record, a photo album of everything that made these Brooklynites into genre-straddling hotshots.

There are still a few songs that meet the criteria of Beasties single-dom, like the bluntly forthright Nas collaboration Too Many Rappers and the dubby ragga of Don’t Play No Game That I Can’t Win, but the deeply sinister Say It sounds too much like a DJ Krush mashup to really find a niche in the running order. Maybe Hot Sauce... isn’t the album to gain them any new fans, but it’ll surely prompt a few jaded souls back to the fold. [David Bowes]