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It demands attention, but when you give it that attention it's a pretty rewarding listen.

Inferno marks the end of a 13 year silence for BoC since they released Tomorrow's Harvest. That album stripped away the traditional euphoria of earlier BoC albums and instead replaced it with tension and ominous drones. It also disclaimed a lot of warnings regarding humanity and the world that we live in.

Inferno feels like the aftermath of those warnings being ignored. The dystopian ... read more

Even when Freddie Gibbs isn't putting his all into his work, it still turns out pretty decent.

A short but snappy 8-minute EP consisting of 3 tracks, the first 2 of which have fairly skeletal instrumentals which allow Freddie to exercise his trademark flow nicely. However there is no clever wordplay or anything to make these tracks stand out in any way which makes sense as to why they're appearing on this EP as opposed to whatever album he drops next.

The most interesting track out ... read more

Where their debut was more explosive and instantaneous in sound, Evil Empire shows more nuance and control from RATM. Doing this allowed them to cut deeper than ever into the political veins of a post-Cold War, pre-9/11 America. They showed no mercy, stripping back the noise in their music to allow Zack de la Rocha to express his most cynical commentaries on ruling power ever. On self-titled, it sounded like the band wanted to make music that would appeal to the masses sonically, but on their ... read more

If music that is "experimental" is defined by unfinished monotonous ideas, then Peggy truly has hit the nail on the head with 'Experimental Rap'.