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MH-248 K-The-I??? - Broken Love Letter  With a booming voice, an indestructible wall of beats, and a lifetime of girl problems, K-The-I??? brings forth a cure for the jaded hip-hop head in the form of his Mush debut, Broken Love Letter. The album's sonic discord, which is reminiscent of the heavy production hand of NMS, the dark industrial blend of Dalek, and the Blade Runner inspired work of El-P, seeks out uninhabited inches in your brain until there's no vacancy left. K-The-I??? unmercifully dissects his interaction with women with every conceivable emotion; anger, sadness, envy, lust, longing, and confusion all make an appearance. His stern command of the mic and effortless flow coupled with the dense instrumentals and backing tracks make for a fresh sound that personifies a progression of the form and marks another success in the career of K-The-I???. |
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| Highly enjoyable - Aiding & Abetting / A solid swig of hip-hop on the fringes - Insomniac / Creative, individual and worth your attention - Music-versity / Much hungrier than his peers and manages to eat up the competition – Color / Think: Bomb Squad producing cLOUDDEAD - XLR8R |
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| The soft, analog beats, the dusty record samples, the stream of consciousness lovelorn rhymes, and the choice interpolation of Broadcast, Portishead, and "You Make Me Feel So Young" by Frank Sinatra all culminate into one of the freshest and most inspired hip-hop albums since cLOUDDEAD's Ten. The meditative lyricism of K-The-I??? skates around the styles of Doseone and Sage Francis, but comes out with a personal edge that places the oft-heartbroken MC among peers with the aforementioned, not among the imitators. "You're Not That Beautiful" is our generation's "Just A Friend" (Biz Markie), only less humorous with more emphasis laid on how k was the one who made the mistake ("but I'm lying to myself" being the concluding line). With his honest and even-handed delivery, it's hard to not feel for this guy. While emo-pricks clog the charts with lame ballads blaming girls for breaking their twelve-teen hearts, K-The-I???s introverted exploration of the mental ins and spiritual outs of every failed relationship -learning about himself instead of taking the easy way out playing the blame game- is a real breath of fresh air in the music landscape. It's as honest and unpretentious as hip-hop gets, yet still pushes the envelope with the odd manic jazz flourish that recall the earlier instrumental work of The Herbaliser. Apparently Cambridge, Massachusetts is the new centre of the hip-hop universe. Sounds good to me. - Amazon |
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