Wu-Tang Clan featuring Isaac Hayes

‘I Can’t Get No Sleep’ [Loud Records]

More insomniac insanity. The freestyling circus that is the Wu are enough of a hip-hop allstars crew in themselves, but here they enlist the croons of Isaac ‘Shaft’ Hayes for a hot soul injection. Strings swoop melodramatically as Ghostface Killah and RZA rage against the machinations of US imperialism and Hayes soothingly intones “Just be who you are… you’ve come so far.”