NAS - It Was Written (Reissue) ROYAL HOUSE textured and melodic but that

textured and melodic but that would also honour our own individual voices and styles

The album was the first in a celebrated trilogy of albums that Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan recorded together

Entirely in her own voice and through her own story

September 2024 sees the release of Ishmael Ensemble’s third longplayer ‘Rituals’

It doesn’t have to go like this

NAS - It Was Written (Reissue) ROYAL HOUSE textured and melodic but thatAfter such an unprecedented debut record, expectations were understandably high for Nas' follow up. What came next threw critics and fans for a loop, but was no less influential than Illmatic, and would become the most commercially successful album in the entirety of Nas' discography. The 1996 follow up was titled It Was Written, and in contrast to the urban bleakness of his debut, had Nas dipping his toes into the world of mafioso rap. Amidst