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MH-223 Thavius Beck - Decomposition  The sprawling arrangements on Thavius Beck's Mush debut, Decomposition burrow into the listeners brain with a mix of melodic samples, chopped breaks, pulsating synths, and head-swirling delay, then morph into genre-bending sound paintings adorned with hallucinogenic vocal samples. Four vocal tracks, "Open Your F*@!ing Eyes" (featuring vocals by Thavius Beck himself), "June Gloom" (vocals by Subtitle), "Amongst the Shadows" (vocals by Cedric Bixler-Zavala of Mars Volta), and "Demons of Destruction" (vocals by Longevity of Darkleaf) find homes among instrumental tracks that are as densely layered and expertly crafted as is found in modern electronic music. Decomposition is a work worthy of extended headphone listening. |
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| Should pin you by the very first track. - Urb / Heady and intense throughout - Metro.Pop / You can't stop listening - Pop Matters / A must have for hip-hop fans who see a future for the genre beyond the dancefloor. - San Francisco Examiner / Close your eyes, swallow, and get to know true enlightenment - Absorb |
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| Some of the ominous soundscape stuff that plays so heavily in El-P's production is present here, but without the lumbering weight of beats. The low end is thinner, which (although that sounds like a slight) offers a bit of subtlety to the draining impact of the downward spiraling keyboard lines. This is a pretty heavy hip-hop record, the focus being far less on the bounce than on tense, anxious jitters of songs that are almost overwhelmed by their density. Spliced vocal text hovers alongside blunt noise in the backgrounds of tracks that are fueled by dueling synthetic keyboard harmonies that only occasionally defer to the obscure flow of vocalists. Heady and intense throughout, note the Cedric Bixler-Zavala cameo that perfectly fits the slightly psychedelic weirdness of this record, not to mention a fucking crazy sample about the dangers of pop music. - Metro.Pop |
