Analog Brothers - Pimp to Eat

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Music Review: Communication and the Lyrical Salad
Rating: 5 Stars

The voyages that Kool Keith takes his listeners on are a bizarre ride into the gray-matter of a constantly evolving lyrical genius as he pledges his allegiance to no other force but himself and the messages he adopts. Sometimes this works wonderfully, depicting the struggles of an artist that walks well outside the incorporated synthesis of marketing ploys and top 20 beats and doing it well, and sometimes this vessel submerges a little too fast, making his listeners wonder just what he was thinking as he crafted an odyssey that simply didn't work. Regardless, this normally pushes him well past the incessantly covered valleys of the mainstream, over the hills and through the woods of musical variety and into places less traversed by artist. In many places, like this release, it shines, too.

So, what is the Analog Brothers release about? Well, it strays into a multitude of places through a variety of spoken methods, but it normally returns to the focal point that it is based around; that of pimping and the mindset of those behind the fur coats and driven attitudes. In it, the performance of Keith Korg is strong and, in parts, he is accompanied by an equally-accentable Ice-T. Still, The Ocilator sometimes comes up limp in the lyrical realm, making one question the performance given by what I would call the weak spot out of everyone involved - including the nameless contributors that position themselves like powerhouses amongst this bed of stars. This was the worst part of the album, too, knowing that the sometimes descriptive machine wouldn't work in the minimalist beats contrived by the Keith Kool methodology and still keeping on, hoping for the shining spots that were bound to come once more.

With all this stated, I'd also like to go on the record as saying that this release wouldn't be for everyone, especially those practicing the art of listening to artists in heavy rotation or those that expect the wonders of the beat with a fresh side of subpar rhymes. Kool Keith is something of a new experience for those uneducated in his field of play and, as such, one should tread lightly when approach his realm of wonder, thinking before diving beneath those sometimes weighty sheets.

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