While rap may be rather uncommon sight on this blog. It can happen. :P
I don't posses a lot of knowledge of the genre but I do tend to travel in its vast landscape from time to time. As with all genres there are those who do it for fun and those who do it for a more serious message. This album falls into the first group of guys who do it for a more softer tone. Lyrically this album makes no sense whatsoever. At times it sounds like they are spewing just some random words that go along while at other times they just tell you how awesome they are. But realistically looking an album title like this doesn't really tell you that this will be a deep contemplation about metaphysics in the first place so you can sort of expect what to find here.
What really shines here is the beats. The beats are marvelously cut out and composed. The drums sound especially good and are very warm as if they are not cut out but played by a real drummer. Something that I didn't come across before in this genre. As you might have guessed from the title the album is filled with references to popular culture from Japan. So you get a lot of Japanese samples and all sorts of effect sounds from various trashy movies from the 80s. Despite the inane lyrics Esoteric has a very quick and flexible flow so his rhymes blend very good with the music which makes the album even better. Not exactly essential material but it's definitely worth a listen.
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Hey,
ReplyDeleteI thought I'd let you know that i like your blog.
I appreciate all the comics. Great reference and inspiration (I do some comics and painting is why I say that).
Also good music. Haven't listened to a lot of crust punk/grind stuff in what feels like forever, but Insect warefare and all that stuff is great. Good black metal.
I liked the train of thought about scenes constricting people's creativity written a couple posts back.
Keep up the good work!
Thank you. ^_^
ReplyDeleteYour art seems very interesting!