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review: Steven Long
out on Labels
UK
tracklist:
1. Focus
2. The
Single
3. My Casio
4. Walk Into The Light
5.
Gold Of Desert Kings
6. Cool Boots
7. Hollywood
And Vine
8. Capes Billowing
9. The Let Go
10.
How To Read A Person Like A Book
11.
Hope
rating: 7/10 |
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do you think of this album?
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In fact, they're a very different hip hop beast.
They're not 'characters', they're not 'playas' or 'gangstas'
but a group who accompany their own raps, not by cuts from a
DJ, but with guitar, keyboards, bass, drums and a whole range
of effects courtesy of the DFA production team.
As a result, the Automato sound isn't stark or stripped
down, or solely built around one hook per track. This album
bursts with good tunes and groovy musicality.
And, unlike other hip hoppers I could mention, they're
not prepared to give you one good musical idea when they can
change tempo, style and sound anytime they like: Cool Boots
fuses west-coast rock, Acid House bleeps and is one of the
best rap tracks I've heard this year; Focus sounds like a
collision between The Shadows and Wu-Tang; Walk Into the
Light, is hip hop post-rock! You get the point.
Automato are eclectic and musically ambitious, but
skilfully don't let their debut album sound like some strange,
ungainly compilation album. If you like your hip hop packed
with tunes and loads of stunning and smart musical moves this
is the album for you. Automato are that good.
Now have your say:
Gareth Jones, Droylsden, Manchester
Rotten Tomato
I would say. Like the Shadows without Sir Cliff, all juice but
no pips!
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