MH-201 Boom Bip & Doseone - Circle A Birdcatcher in a no-piece suit and a Town Crier in the round, Circle is the critically acclaimed full-length from vocalist Doseone and producer Boom Bip. The New York Times has named Circle one of the "Top-Ten Worthwhile Albums of the Year" and the duo have been rewarded with over a dozen artist profiles including a feature in The Wire and nods to Doseone as Spin's "Incoming" and CMJ's "On the Verge" artist-of-the-month. A cohesive work of word and sound that ends where it begins and emulates the child within, Circle combines honest word and live instrumentation with an amalgam of sixties, seventies, eighties, and nineties compositions. Doseone does it all, prose at light speed, in slow speak, and even bird calls. Circle is at once like everything and nothing before it - and what comes next will not be the same.

Tracklist 01. Open 02. The Birdcatcher 03. Square 04. Dead Man's Teal 05. Re: The Rarity Of Meaningful Experience 06. Directions To California 07. The Lantern 08. "Art Saved My Life" - 71 09. Questions Over Coffee 10. Wishful Thinking 11. Ironish 12. 21 To 35 13. Slight 14. "Open Quotes 15. Town Crier's Walk 16. Fence Hopping 17. Poetic License 18. Viewfinder 19. The Birdcatcher's Return 20. Sleep Talkin 21. Gin 22. Goddamn Telephone 23. I Get It 24. Me And People 25. Ho's 26. Square... No Corners 27. This Album Was Meant To Be Myself But Somewhere Along The Line It Ended Up Feeling More Like You... Yet... 28. The Birdcatcher's Oath 29. Close

Release Details Release Date: 08/01/2000   Running Time: 65:00   Download/Available/$7.00 2XLP/Out Of Print CD/Available/$10.00 Territory: World Excluding UK/Europe License For UK/Europe: The Leaf Label - Release Date: 05/27/2002

Reviews Summary

A Masterpiece, Fladdout - Your Flesh / Hip-Hop To Confound And Inspire In Equal Measure - Seven / Edgy, Eldritch and Mind-Bogglingly Evanescent - DJ / Invigorating, Wildly Innovative and Inventive - Play Louder / Ambitious, off the wall, and impossible to justice in a review - Straight No Chaser / A Landmark Moment In Hip-Hop History - Exclaim!

Reviews

4th District / Absorb / Adrenalin / All Music Guide / Amazon / Aquarius / Beat / Beat / Big Chill / Careless Talk Costs Lives / CMJ / Collective / Copper Press / DJ / Dot Alt / Download / Exclaim! / Exclaim! / Ghetto Blaster / Held Like Sound / Ice / Irish Times / Muzik / New York Times / NME / Organ / Oui / Overload / Play Louder / Rebirth / Seven / Silvergirl / Sonomu / Straight No Chaser / The Brainwashed Brain / The Crack / The List / The Times / The Wire / Transworld Surf / Uncut / Unpeeled / Urb / XLR8R / Your Flesh /

The smartest sound on the block this week may be one part out-there Captain Beefheart to two parts underground hip-hop but it's all the better for such an unsubtle mix. Producer Boom Bip and cLOUDDEAD lyricist Doseone's debut album is a mighty wash of sounds and sources which takes its cues from extremely tangential hip-hop interchanges, flickering sonic interference, free jazz scats and oddly paranormal drones. If this sounds a tad po-faced, we apologize for misleading you and point instead towards a track like "The Lantern" or "'Art Saved My Life' -71" with kooky drama and barmy fun at the heart of the matter. A welcome distraction from careerist electronic tykes, Circle is naturally a sound without borders. - Irish Times