Still listening to music, believe it or not! A lack of internet, time and general stability made this the lightest month for new stuff in the short history of the project. Got this one from Nicole, and it was actually the first album I listened to in my new place, back on the 4th or so.
I had only heard Deadringer before this, yet another consensus-best-and-forget victim. What I heard there did not really prepare me for this, though. Sure, there's some of the same muscly, driving instrumental hip-hop gone full rockist, and those songs are as good as ever (nothing to compare to Ghostwriter, though Small Plan's comes close with its bent synth revs). But then there's these odd, crooned, numbers that evoke peak-populraity Fatboy Slim or Jamiroquai, legitimately singer songwriter moments that pepper the album.
For the most part, they actually work better than you might think: Games You Can win has some nice buzzy production underneath - some fall flat: The Glow and Gypsy Caravan aren't as funky as they try to be by a third.
It all hangs together more than you might expect though, the result is a creaky, charmingly-half effective, only occasionally awkward little slice of tunes. I kind of admire the adventurousness, even if the adventure was to do something so pop in between jams, and most importantly, its curiously listenable 4/5
You might like this if: you like head-bobbing, rock-oriented, hip-hop production jams and slightly adventurous acts of pop croonery. They come together here better than you might expect.
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