Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea meets raps. Call it the indie rock Grey Album. Will it transcend that overrated mess's legacy?
A desperately low percentage of two-song mashups have enough groove power and ideas to stay listenable for their entire running time: usually there's at most nice synergy between two particular parts of two songs, and that's it, at which point just Girl Talk 'em for a few bars and move on.
Half of these songs really transcend that: managing to actually bring rock power and pathos to otherwise one-dimensional boastfests / slapping some petty tight raps over even the most meandering NMH moments, giving them an irresistible shot of energy. Psycosis knows when he needs to bend the songs out of shape, when he needs to break out of their structures, and manages to deconstruct the songs thoroughly enough to make them work without betraying their nature.
But some of these songs just aren't meant to work, never settling into a groove, never working as rap or indie rock or mashup or anything.
A decidedly uneven album that somehow both disappoints and works better than it reasonably should 3/5
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