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MH-247 Thavius Beck - Thru  Thavius Beck returns with his signature blend of mind bending experimental hip-hop and dark synth-driven industrial electronics on his new release Thru. Featuring thirteen tracks of densely layered samples, pulsating synths, and dizzying delay plastered over frantic drum tracks, the album builds on the sound established in his breakout release, Decomposition. In addition to providing vocals on two tracks himself, Thavius collaborates with touring partner and hip-hop's poet laureate, Saul Williams, folk-songstress Mia Doi Todd, Los Angeles staple 2Mex, and up-and-coming MC Nocando on individual tracks. Thru will cement Thavius Beck's position among electronic music production's boldest voices. |
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| A visionary sampling of sounds - Re:Up / A strong, distinctive offering. - Music Australia Guide / You'd struggle to find a better alternative hip-hop record in this, or any other, year - Rock Sound / Undeniably impressive - The Wire / A damn nice and original album - UK Hip-Hop |
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| Rap music has been dismissed by a puritanical society as a deviant art peddled by devotees to a life filled with violence and excess. Yet at the fringes of the rap movement remain the loyal few such as Thavius Beck, who remember rap not as a misogynistic practice of shameless self-promotion but as the urban poetry of social injustice. With his second album, Thru, Beck breaks through the sprawling urban decay of his native Minneapolis and captures a sound free of decadence but deep meaning. In "Dichotomy," Beck blends frantic hip-hop drums with a dark industrial drone, and with a machine-gun delivery and stream-of-consciousness rhythm announces his refusal to "... subscribe to any dogmatic tribe of sheep. Grazing, soon to be a shaven flock of sacrificial lamb chops." Introspection and thoughtful self-reflection blend seamlessly in "Why," as Beck questions the meaning of existence over a tragic and heart-wrenching piano sonata. "Why must we always avoid the true meaning?" Beck asks. "Cryptic thoughts become religion. Why is this so?" - Metro.Pop |
