#515 El-P - Cancer for the Cure

El-P has always had some pretty hard hitting raps, and he's wielded his production skills accordingly: full of sqr wv sldge and bzzsw gshs. For the most part he's been easier to admire than enjoy.

Here he's found his stride though, putting out his most listenable, most focuses, most inventive, and probably best album yet, filling in all the vowels on the same descriptors, sliding lightcycle past past album's car crashes. It's still dirty, but here is slime whipped from a sword slash instead of burbling.

And yeah, the raps are still sharp and delivered with aggression, El-P's gutteral spit-shouts hitting in the gut, and the words themselves are clevered than ever. And choruses! Actual choruses. Concessions to listenable music that thoroughly dodge anything you could call selling out 4/5