Bob Vylan: "We always believed we could, but it's mind-blowing it's come to fruition"
28.04.2022 - 14:05
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This week, grime-punk act Bob Vylan look set to score their Official Albums Chart debut with Bob Vylan Presents: The Price of Life. This is no mean feat for the duo - comprising Bobby Vylan and Bobb13 Vylan - who are a wholly-independent act working across every element of their record's infrastructure.
With their own label, Ghost Theatre Records, the inspirational pair control their entire recording and release strategy; from writing and production to manufacturing and marketing (even driving round record shops to distribute the album themselves).
It's a strategy as unique as their music; a fusion of punk, hip-hop, grunge and grime. So, how did Bob Vylan get here, mingling among major label acts in the charts? We caught up with them to find out.
It feels amazing. We always believed we could, but it's still mind-blowing seeing it come to fruition.
These are issues that affect all of us in some way or another. With so many immediate problems in people's lives it can be easy to forget to look at how these problems have arisen in the first place and what we can do to change things; not just for ourselves, but all affected.
Us tackling them so directly hopefully encourages others to take a little more time to consider these issues too.
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Obviously the sound draws from lots of different types of music: rock, rap, grime; but maybe more interestingly to some is that we draw just as much, if not more, from writers and speakers like Patricia Hill-Collins, Walter Rodney and Paulo Friere to name a few.
On this album and our last, we've included reading lists of books filled with people that we've been inspired by.
I'd say the biggest pro of being an independent act is that the direction of this ship