Given its songs' consistent strength, Rings' extravagant extras rarely seem excessive.
Damage picks up where Co Flow left off, slamming jagged boom-baps into computer-cash squeals like a recordo-on-spec score for a Blade Runner sequel set in Brooklyn.
Preposterous and sensational, We Love Life grapples with nothing less then how best to prove you're alive.
On (), the band steer their ghost ship into darker waters, erecting a vast, austere cathedral of sound, then sticking around to score a funeral mass inside.
The music on Pirate Material, all produced by Skinner, is rarely short of poignant.
The Rising is the most eloquent artistic response yet to the World Trade Center tragedy.
The Blueprint 2: The Gift & The Curse approaches the difficult task of trumping a creative and commercial peak the way you’d expect: by turning the music (and the bombast) high, high, higher.
One Beat's hooks require a few passes to take hold. But the band's return to forward motion still feels like leadership.
As broad as their discography is, though, In Search Of still feels radical.