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MH-235 Busdriver - Fear Of A Black Tangent  With the most cohesive work of his career, Busdriver turns his razor sharp wit on his place in the music industry with his new full-length release, Fear Of A Black Tangent. It is the follow-up to his career establishing release, Temporary Forever. Songs covering small club touring, independent music promotion, and the barrage of uninspired hip-hop releases on the market all contribute to the album's theme of trying to break as a emerging artist. Busdriver has taken a year's worth of material and trimmed it down to thirteen impressive tracks that range from lightning fast Project Blowed style raps to sing-song pop. The album features production by Daedelus, Danger Mouse, Thavius Beck, Omid, and Paris Zax and has guest appearances by fellow Project Blowed MCs Abstract Rude, Ellay Khule, Mikah-9, and 2Mex. |
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| Reviews Summary |
| Outstanding - Urb / Genius - BBC / Experimental and fresh - Hip-Hop Connection / Intoxicating - Straight No Chaser / Decidedly cool and deadly - XLR8R / Busdriver straight kills it - Hour / Treads where most wouldn't dare - DJ / Certainly the best I’ve heard in a long time - Indigo Flow |
| As the prim and proper follow-up to the highly touted (yet somehow never released on vinyl) Temporary Forever album, Busdriver helms the eclectics of his experimental album Cosmic Cleavage in a clap of collaboration with its predecessor in Fear of a Black Tangent, a rife, wily, funny emotional rollercoaster. Flirting with parody in song throughout, Busdriver downplays scenesters with the help of Danger Mouse on "Cool Band Buzz," pontificates his own imaginary death from a ski-lift on "Reheated Pop!" and dances with a subdued almost indie-rock-chic on "Unemployed Black Astronaut" - a bitter-sweet self-addressing milieu of race, media-culture and more. Naturally, rapping as face with such incredibly annunciation Busdriver jigsaws an awe-inspiring amount of subjects amid his creative tangent. Where Temporary Forever found its pinnacle in raucous head-nods and Blowdian styling, it's the realization in that as hard as you work for something (as renown as Project Blowed) that the masses will only remember you for what they feel like remembering you for. So, fuck it, and do what you want to do while you walk this planet. - Pound |
1XLP/Out Of Print