I haven't heard it yet, but the bad reception is disappointing. Here I was thinking they'd finally got it together on Rules and Regulations, and now I'm hearing they lost the plot again. I guess I'd be fooling myself to think a group run by Wiley wouldn't, like the Three Stooges, bash in the bottom of their boat to drain a leak. :slanted:
I loved Rules and Regulations, but the beats on this are wack. I can totally understand wanting to sound like Madness if you're a pop band - what better? - but you gotta have the choruses first. It's a prime example of the problem of MC culture - that giving one's own experience is
enough, and frankly it isn't. Chatting on beats - or acoustic guitar tracks, or whatever - is about giving over the meaning of your experience to a perceived audience. If you've lost that hunger and can't do the direct experience thing then you gotta try and take that to writing songs, killer choruses...you gotta go further. See rolex and dance with me for that, it's fair enough and good I think for development. But I dunno who wasn't involved - Trim, or some backstage people or what - on this one but it fails on all levels. Sad really. Sounds and feels like a crew falling apart, if that was the intention - and see the last track, it sounds like it was - then good. It's not even heartbreaking though, it just feels like people with a platform and nothing to contribute.
