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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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| Outstanding - Urb / Genius - BBC / Experimental and fresh - Hip-Hop Connection / Intoxicating - Straight No Chaser / Decidedly cool and deadly - XLR8R / Treads where most wouldn't dare - DJ / Busdriver straight kills it - Hour / Certainly the best I've heard in a long time - Indigo Flow |
| While most MCs are battling implied foes, vague socio-economic determinants and homoeroticism, Busdriver battles an industry that totally ignores him. This guy is the independent music everyman, charting hip-hop territory that is increasingly similar to the plight of angry indie outsiders a decade or two ago. The political-commercial similarities between what Busdriver is doing and what immediately concerned post-punk rhetoric unfortunately function as raw material for labeling this guy "emo," which is hardly appropriate. What this powerful MC does is use his voice like the instrument that could only be imagined in cultural studies essays on hip-hop. Listen to the way he mixes cadence, tone and point-of-view so deftly while juggling incomparable metaphor. Repeated listening is what this guy is about, which is rewarding and speaks to a substained quality in the music, but also draws attention to how overwhelmingly fast this guy raps and how difficult it is to take it all in. - Metro.Pop |
1XLP/Out Of Print