Sole - Sole And The Skyrider Band

Anticon's finest hip-hop album since Sage Francis' classic `Personal Journals'.
*Anticon co-founder Sole's official follow up to 2005's Live From Rome
and first release with his new band, Skyrider.
*Sole has recorded as part of Deep Puddle Dynamics with Atmosphere's Slug,
as well as with Sage Francis, DJ Krush, and Tortoise's John Herndon.
*In some ways, this is a record of return - a return to rhyming for one,
particularly the complicated rhyme schemes that marked Sole's early work, a
return driven by his seeming, but not actual, discordant love of both Lord
Byron and Lil' Wayne.
*Witness Sole and omni-instrumentalist William Ryan Fritch's interaction on
"100 Light Years And Running," which bridges the gap between chamber music and
N.W.A. while serenading the glittering beauty of Arizona's night sky, or the
play of buzzing guitar, turntable accents, and liquid drums in "On Paradise,"
where Sole riffs on a passage from Werner Herzog's Fata Morgana.
*It's a record where the lovely analog of "Shipwreckers" (where Sole jacks the
hook from the Guy Debord film Refutation Of All Judgements) comfortably co
-habits with the grinding, anthemic opening track, where Sole promises, "when
the last buzzard eats the last candy bar from the last body on the San Andreas,
it'll be a sad day for investors."

*Tracklisting: 01. A Sad Day For Investors. 02. Ghost Assassinating Other
Ghosts. 03. Nothing Is Free. 04. The Bridges, Let Us Down. 05. 100 Light
Years And Running. 06. Shipwreckers. 07. The Sound Of Head On Concrete.
08. Magnum. 09. Bones Of Pets. 10. In Paradise. 11. One Egg Short Of The
Omelette. 12. In On Cavalry. 13. Stupid Things Implode On Themselves.

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