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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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| Technically, Circus and Andre are teammates here, but one understands why they frame their collab as a competition. Asmar's beats are of the thunderous, late-'80s variety, which Circus has rightly taken as a challenge. Conflating alien invasions with modern culture, he valiantly outshouts them. - Download |
