Labels: Ninja Tune
Review by: Chris Bress
Buying a record on the strength of its guest vocalist is never a good sign, especially when it’s on a label that you have always found pretty fucking boring. But, I didn’t go for it first time, I waited for other peoples thoughts. Luckily for me my mates liked it so I took the plunge and..dude! It’s great!
Ninja Tunes seems a pretty boring, student post- / pre- hip hop label from the stuff I’ve had to listen to at work but this record is just great.
The first track is cool in a Boom Bip meets Portishead way, kind of experimental hip-hop, kind of trip hop but very nice. I don’t really know what to do when I’m listening to it, you can’t dance to it or have a bit of a mosh either. So chin-stroking it is!
The b-side (with Damo Suzuki!) sounds totally like Can! No suprise there, but its cool, it’s kind of like that Can remix record that came out with Thurston Moore etc. He does a groovy Tom Waits style “boom boom ba dah dah” in it which shows he’s still pretty nuts.