Gil Scott-Heron: Me and The Devil

Here, fallen from the sky, is something from Gil Scott-Heron, apparently his first single in more than a decade. The video is in two parts, with the first section sung over Massive Attack-style beats, while zombie kids roam and skate in a Walter Hill stylee. So far so emptily portentous.... and then, magnificently, from 3.30 in, Gil revisits The Vulture, a track he sang, in a voice carrying just a shade of Lou Rawls, on 1970's Small Talk at 125th and Lenox,  but here his sonorous tones incant in spoken form those same lyrics, with all the depth and profundity absent from the first part of the video.

Quite a return to form.