As chapters leap from area to area, trailing three distinct musical acts by means of increase and bust, Ekpoudom expertly braids rigorously researched historic context (Windrush, Grenfell, So Strong Crew’s emergence) with the form of characterful, richly textured avenue vignettes that The Wire’s David Simon could be happy with. Phil “Traxx” Davies, founding member of genre-blurring Newport collective Astroid Boys, makes an epiphanic journey to his native Cyprus; Despa, a former drug supplier turned music mogul, fields enterprise calls at a Birmingham climbing centre. After which there may be the story of Blaine “Cadet” Johnson — the beloved, Gypsy Hill-raised MC whose premature demise in 2019 left a deep scar on the group and is recounted right here with affecting, lump-in-the-throat readability.