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MH-228 Circus Vs. Andre Afram Asmar - Gawd Bless The Faceless Cowards  Gawd Bless The Faceless Cowards counters the left of left-field raps of Circus (head honcho of the Shapeshifters) with Andre Afram Asmar’s elaborate, dub inflected world-beats. The results collage the socially relevant tones and playfulness of daisy-age hip-hop with the otherworldly word and sound barrage of space-rap. Asmar’s bed of glitchy, expertly processed rhythms pulse and flow as Circus' stream of consciousness lyrics dissect religious dogma, political power struggles, alien abductions, reptilian invaders, doomed relationships, and sucker MCs. A true collaboration, both artists veer slightly from their established forms to produce this strange and often hilarious joyride. |
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| This is an ambitious, highly intelligent record. - Metro.Pop / Highly recommended - In the Mix / Very Compelling - Impact Press / Better than any other anti-Bush record this year. - CMJ / Circus’s most accessible release to date. - Exclaim! |
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| Gawd Bless the Faceless Cowards sounds much more professional than anything previously released by Circus, but it's also much softer than the regular sci-fi future funk of the Shapeshifters. Circus is still waxing poetic about current politics ("Bully" and "Holy Blood"), aliens and conspiracy theories ("We Are Not Alone" and "Biblical Proof of UFOs") and b-boy braggadocio ("Army of Fresh"). But, he's also found love, if "Club Lights" and "Sir Romancealot" are any indication. Andre Afram Asmar combines hip-hop beats with electronica, dub and tribal vibes to create some shape-shifting productions that are always entertaining in their evolution. While not really what one would expect from the head of the experimental, lo-fi Shapeshifters, Faceless Cowards is a good album that might be Circus’s most accessible release to date. - Exclaim! |
