Labrinth: Electronic Earth – review

"Hey Simon, we're fucking 'em up/ Sending 'em Syco," raps Labrinth on his recent single " Earthquake ", marking an unlikely intersection between grime music and Simon Cowell. It may seem odd that the young east Londoner who produced Tinie Tempah's " Pass Out " is releasing his debut album on Cowell's Syco label, but this is an unabashed pop project with a wide brief, no more allied to grime than gospel, funk or soft rock. Singing, producing and performing his own material, Labrinth has high ambitions but falls disappointingly short, and there's nothing here to top "Earthquake".