The split EP, challenging reviewers not to resort to the "this side...but that side..." structure since 1982.
Give or take.
Well I'm just not that good at this shit: Daedelus's six instrumental hip-hop tracks have a hazy, wobbled quality, sounding like DJ Shadow at his druggiest, mixed with so much of the lurch that was hot circa 2010. At least the underlying beats are hot, Teeb's 4 tracks lack that punch, his tracks sounding lost in themselves, with angular rhythmic stuttersteps seemingly tossed in for their own sake, hemorrhaging flow and leaking cool. Anchor Steam, his most straightforward track on the album, is certainly the strongest of the lot, prickling insistent and tense.
The short song lengths, capping out at an epic 2:30, do keep the collection right sprightly, evoking a hip-hop Guided by Voices odds-and-ends collection, and that frantic, unpredictable lo-fi spirit justifies a modest recommendation 3/5
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