Posted about this last week because I thought there was next to no chance of my being able to review it...but surprise, I got an assignment from Blurt just afterwards, and now my review is up on the site.
Serengeti
Family & Friends
(Anticon)
www.anticon.com
Serengeti, the Chicago-born, LA-based rapper David Cohn, inhabits nearly a dozen different personas on his Family & Friends and sheds additional sympathetic light on a large cast of bystanders. Whether he's embodying the exhausted bigamist of "Goddamit" or the wistful young man connecting with his dad through drugs on "Long Ears" or the washed-up UFC gladiator in "The Whip", he observes without judging. Friends & Family is more like a short-story collection than poetry, though it has its share of arresting lines.
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Serengeti
This is good, this new album, Family & Friends, by the Chicago emcee...it's a series of interlocking stories about various family relationships, not all of them very admirable. (One song, "Goddammit" has a bigamist as its main character, juggles a 17-year-old girl and a 30-something wife, both believe they are married to him.)
Interesting, it's produced by Yoni from Why? plus a guy named Advanced Battery Base, who is also, in his indie-pop guise, known as Casiotone for the Painfully Alone.
"The Whip," a song about a UFC fighter, is the best thing on the album, but the video is for "Flutes".
Interesting, it's produced by Yoni from Why? plus a guy named Advanced Battery Base, who is also, in his indie-pop guise, known as Casiotone for the Painfully Alone.
"The Whip," a song about a UFC fighter, is the best thing on the album, but the video is for "Flutes".
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