Young Eman – ‘BINE’ review: a wild ride with a dark side

Young Eman has become the talk of the UK underground with his warped, genre-blurring take on rap. The 20-year-old delivers sonic whiplash, hurtling between electronica, trance, trap and more at skin-melting speed before your brain has had a chance to categorise what it’s hearing. Since his explosive 2025 breakthrough EP ‘Steeze Kills’, the Sheffielder has stretched his music far beyond the conventions of rage rap. And on his debut mixtape ‘BINE (Born In New England)’, he pushes that restless experimentation to the max, finding beauty in the chaos – even when something bleaker lurks beneath it. READ MORE: Spellbinding singer-songwriter Nomi. is finding her own frequency From the start, you’re dragged into a technicoloured sonic universe, where apocalyptic basslines, clanking cymbals and abrasive synths come crashing down around you. He creates rowdy, soul-thumping anthems like ‘Mazda’, a rage rap masterclass with TeeboFG, and cuts like ‘Work On Me’ and ‘Turmoil’, where high-pitched piano keys skitter above clattering 808 rolls for an irresistibly propulsive rush. Eman’s production whips between electronica’s meditative pull and the chest-rattling force of rage, with the odd delicate...