Tuesday, November 30, 2010

#238 Beats Antique - Collide

Also from Dave.

This is a lot more interesting to me, vaguely middle eastern themed downbeat instrumental hip hop, with lots of rough corners and glitchy jags in it. The beats are sometimes simple, sometimes oddly off-kilter, sometimes a bit of both, and the production is lush with diverse instrumentation. The problem is really the pacing though, after half an hour of this, it all starts to blend together, and starts to get a little annoying, and you've still got half an hour left. Sweet Demure is a highlight that helps though, slowing the pace down into an (again!) Ratatatesque surger, but still, as an album its a tough listen. Certainly worth hearing once, its a unique thing, it just isn't quite listenable enough for me to go higher than 3/5

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