Description:	CD on Ipecac
	Format:	CD
	Genre(s):	Hip-Hop/Rap
	Label:	Ipecac
	Price:	£10.29
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...according to our Ant on 22 January 2009.

Dalek are back with an other album for Ipecac... 'Gutter Tactics' opens with a mighty intro 'Blessed Are They Who Bash Your Children's Heads Against A Rock' with some preacher type man unleashing an almighty rant about War. Really heavy political stuff. As far as the rest of the album goes then there's some good moments although it's not as aggressive and brutal as some of their previous material. The overall sound is dense though with lots happening to grab your interest. I do find it a little murky though with no particular element being prominent in the mix. The noise, beats and vocals all seem to be at the same level on many of the tracks and it sometimes becomes difficult to. Surprisingly my favorite moments are the more gentle dreamy tracks. Some lush things happening. Certainly a grower... Brett's asked if I've mentioned PM Dawn yet...

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What their label says...

*  Dalek’s fourth full-length album for Ipecac, set to consolidate their status as hip-hop’s heaviest and most
experimental outfit
*  One of the most vicious and viciously original hip hop outfits in the world, New Jersey duo dalek are proof that genre-blending doesn’t necessarily entail genre-blanding, investing hip-hop with an experimental edge and an ear for sonic extremity, weaned as much on Sabbath, Melvins, My Bloody Valentine and Faust as the brutalist bricolage of the Bomb Squad, Mobb Deep, Schooly D and Wu Tang.
*  Gutter Tactics is a liberating crawl through sewers sonic and metaphorical, the outfit’s trademark bipolar personality, mellow vs aggressive, ethereal vs earthy, reconciled into a single sonic entity. The overall murk of the sound itself makes good on producer and founder okt0pus’ mutterings about ‘David Lynch lighting, shadowy, claustrophobic, but shoved with detail, his aural edifices rich in texture and shading.’ MC dalek’s inimitable flow is deeper and more truthful/painful than ever, essaying the nightside of the psyche with an articulate rage.
*  Recorded with the assistance the Deadverse collective, featuring samples from musicians such as Destructo Swarmbots

Tracklisting:
1.Blessed Are They Who Bash Your Children’s Heads Against A Rock
2.No Question
3.Armed With Krylon
4.Who Medgar Evers Was...
5.Street Dictation
6.A Collection Of Miserable
7.Thoughts Laced With Wit Los Macheteros/Spear Of A Nation
8.We Lost Sight
9.Gutter Tactics
10.2012 (The Pillage)
11.Atypical Stereotype