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MH-201 Boom Bip & Doseone - Circle  A Birdcatcher in a no-piece suit and a Town Crier in the round, Circle is the critically acclaimed full-length from vocalist Doseone and producer Boom Bip. The New York Times has named Circle one of the "Top-Ten Worthwhile Albums of the Year" and the duo have been rewarded with over a dozen artist profiles including a feature in The Wire and nods to Doseone as Spin's "Incoming" and CMJ's "On the Verge" artist-of-the-month. A cohesive work of word and sound that ends where it begins and emulates the child within, Circle combines honest word and live instrumentation with an amalgam of sixties, seventies, eighties, and nineties compositions. Doseone does it all, prose at light speed, in slow speak, and even bird calls. Circle is at once like everything and nothing before it - and what comes next will not be the same. |
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| A masterpiece, fladdout - Your Flesh / Let them take your inner ear outer there. - NME / Invigorating, wildly innovative and inventive - Play Louder / Ambitious, off the wall, and impossible to justice in a review - Straight No Chaser / A landmark moment in hip-hop history - Exclaim! / This might be the best... document to have emerged from hip-hop's savant-garde - The Wire |
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| This album is a true wonder and is booting back the envelope of possibilities in sound by a good few notches. Boom Bip is the producer with the vast record collection, sampler, and wayward imagination, whilst Doseone is, put simply, the most original rap voice in years. Doseone is the shit for three reasons: voice (on helium); delivery (playful); and technique (ranging from the hyper abstract to charming to pure check-the-technique velocity). Which goes some small way to detailing the treasures on offer here. While you could call it a hip-hop album in that it's got a man chatting rhythmically over it, it's so much more. Like all great innovative music, it's impossible to frame in mere words, but if you were to demand a description you could say it's the moment before death when your whole life flashes through your mind's eye in a glorious tapestry of thoughts, feelings, memories, and emotions. It evokes times and places you've experienced and also some you haven't. Colossal new music. - The Crack |
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