MH-264 K-The-I??? - Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow K-The-I??? marks a thunderous return to Mush with his latest full-length, Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow. Production on the album is handled entirely by Thavius Beck, his first project since he finished work on Saul Willaims' Niggy Tardust alongside Trent Reznor. Where his debut, Broken Love Letter, focused on past loves gone wrong, Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow is a collection of songs about the MC's cross country relocation, and trying to come to terms with how his life has changed from that. The result is a work of singular focus that catches K-The-I??? at his strongest, dropping ingenious lyrics over Blade Runner beats. The album features a stellar line-up of guest MCs as High Priest of a newly reunited Antipop Consortium, Busdriver, Subtitle, Scribble Jam winner Nocando, Vyle, and Mestizo all drop in. Thavius Beck even leaves the producer's desk and steps in front of the mic for a track. For fans looking for an album that ties hip-hop's past, present and future, K-The-I???'s Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow delivers.

Tracklist 01. 400 On The BPM 02. Before The Session 03. Trading Places (Feat. Nocando) 04. Decisions 05. Cell-Shaded/Daydreams/Nightmares 06. Marathon Man (Feat. Thavius Beck) 07. Let's Make Moves (Feat. Vyle) 08. Lead The Floor 09. Stylin' (Feat. Subtitle) 10. Never Heard It Done Like This (Feat. High Priest) 11. Just Listen 12. Sabbath Faster (Feat. Busdriver) 13. Finger Painting 14. Man Or Machine (Feat. Mestizo)

Release Details Full Album Lyrics   Release Date: 11/04/2008   Running Time: 39:30   Download/Available/$7.00 CD/Available/$10.00 Territory: North America License For UK/Europe: Big Dada - Release Date: 10/20/2008

Reviews Summary

K's back and kicking - stand clear - NME / Rewards as much as it refuses to compromise - The Wire / Another strong notch on the post of lyrically-progressive hip-hop - Hip-Hop Connection / Go cop this s**t; it's the future of hip-hop - Lost At Sea / Twists the accepted notion of hip-hop into new shapes - Knowledge

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Aiding & Abetting / All Music Guide / Brainwashed / Check The Rhime / Cyclic Defrost / Deftune / Delusions Of Adequacy / Drowned In Sound / Fact / Geek Pie / Hip-Hop Connection / iDJ / In The Mix / Inertia / Knowledge / Lost At Sea / Made Loud / NME / NOW Toronto / Plan B / Planet Urban / Plug One / Pop Matters / Pop Musicology / Q / Ragged Words / The Agit Reader / The Guardian / The Observer / The Wire / This Is Book's Music / Western Carolinian / XLR8R /

The Magnificents hail from Edinburgh, and their obsessions are clearly Joy Division and electro, injecting fun into the former, and saving the latter from the curse of electroclash. The robot chant of opener "Infidel Infidel (Six Fingered Hell)" morphs violently into a hardcore glamorama, whilst "Last Gasp Of Revenge" comes on like a mish-mash of To Rococo Rot and Josef K. "Digital Dirt" buzzes with Germanic foreboding before segueing into the theme from Commando as reworked by the ghost of Ian Curtis ("M.I.A."). You expect a crunchy hook in "The Russian Disco," but it holds back to the breaking point, offering up vistas of ice-cool despair instead. Outside the club stalks "Ex-Airport," weilding its precision steel electronics as a weapon of paranoid defence. There is darkness and oppression aplenty, yet it is offset with bleeps and splutters, and the record therefore endears rather than isolates. - Fact