One of underground hip-hop's most crucial imprints Astral Black strikes gold with the debut drop from Creep Woland, a slick 14 tracker that has been soaked in the finest grime, new age ambient and trap stylings.

Presented in on what is in many ways its perfect format, Close Reading rolls out like a mishmash soundtrack of hazy rap bars and bumpin' drum machine riddims that is beamed direct from a well-educated mind that has been taught by many Saturdays spent hanging with the crew at Glasgow's legendary record institution Rubadub.

A startling debut that features an array of trax that vastly outweigh Creep Woland's Discogs listing, but when the tracks are this good, then who's really counting?