Third studio album for Adam Sherburne, Mark Pistel and Philip Steir, a trio that has decided to call themselves Consolidated. Over seventy minutes of noise, 26 tracks, 14 real ones, 12 skits. 12 useless skits. Half albums are skits and what could easily be one of the best hip-hop projects of the period ends up by the wayside, rightfully so. You can't put so many useless skits after every single track and go unpunished. It's a great album, theoretically, excellent production combining rock, industrial and hip-hop, and first-rate lyricism, with a choice of heavy socio-conscious and political lyrics.
Initial skit, then simple beat, extravagant, minimal, industrial-electro with skinny syncopated drum and delivery in slow, flowing and hardcore rapping by Sherburne, functional hook with simple bridge. Second skit, followed by a light and simple production, with sample sax as a bridge on the functional hook, skinny heavy syncopated drum machine and rapping delivery, with a slow and flowing style. "Accept Me for What I Am" has an industrial rock beat and hardcore sung delivery, followed by a light interlude with soothing vibes with spoken skit. "Guerrilas in the Mist" is the best track of the tape: industrial hip-hop production, skinny syncopated drum machine, simple and skinny rhythm left to breathe, Adam Sherburne immediately opens the tune with a good delivery, then Paris eats the beat with three lethal verses, delivery with a fast, smooth and hardcore style, in a cut against police brutality.
Pick number eleven boasts a simple industrial rhythm with a lean heavy syncopated drum and a delivery in spoken-word, then skit-interlude-skit to reach song fifteen, sung on a light rhythm. "You Suck" opens to a trio of consecutive songs not fragmented by unnecessary skits, and the best part of the album even if the songs are mediocre: whimsical rhythm, industrial electro dance, hip house vibes, functional hook, with female guests (The Yeastie Girls), skit on the hook, smooth and decent slow rapping delivery, but not great. The following track has a slow and simple industrial beat with decent delivery, while "Gone Fishing" features a spoken-word delivery for five minutes on a slow, light rhythm. The last three songs are interspersed with four skits, there's nothing memorable, a couple of light industrial beats, delivery sung in "A Day on the Green", spoken in "Industry Corporate" and in rapping in "Crackhouse", with the latest guest on the record, Crack MC spitting out a few bars on a light industrial rhythm with a frenetic drum.
Without skits it's a pretty solid tape, but with so many interludes it quickly becomes erratic and forgettable.
Rating: 7/10.
No comments:
Post a Comment