- Audio CD (8 Jun 2009)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: First Word
- ASIN: B0025Y6V52
- Other Editions: MP3 Download
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 210,603 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Just when hip hop was getting a little bland, up pops a wonderfully diverse debut from seven-piece Brit band, Homecut. Cinematic soul, broken beat and jazz infusions glide alongside slick raps and spiritual vocals.
Entering with a poetic piano and some deep drums, album title intro No Freedom Without Sacrifice sets the tone for a lushly left record with hip hop at its core. A 'recorded live' vibe ensues and then we move on.
Fans of Bugz In The Attic and the broken beat scene will smile as the disjointed bleeps and bass of Participant melt under chopped up raps and staccato vocals.
Award-winning soul singer Corinne Bailey-Rae and renowned saxophonist Soweto Kinch join Homecut founder/rapper/producer Testament to spread the love further on I Don't Even Know. This rich production competes as one of the album's finest.
Jazz runs riot with hip hop on Innovators (Nostalgically Speaking) as Homecut's front man Testament provides conscious lyrics and a loop slick enough to rival the late, great J Dilla (Slum Village).
More highlights flow with uplifting soul-meets-dance number Not Far To Go and icy cool hip hop cut Time Difference, featuring J-Live, with its random samba outro. YKTE featuring LeeSun also gleams with its laidback raps and melancholy soul.
Comedy comes courtesy of skit Ecclesiastes 3:11 by British rapper Ty. The title translates as Bible passage, ''He has made everything beautiful in its time!.'' Clearly this is a dig at Testament as Ty quips, ''If you ain't got this album ready next time I see you/ It's a head-butt, headlock!''.
Remarkably, there is absolutely nothing at fault with No Freedom Without Sacrifice. Scrap that. We'll echo Ty and shout out loud, ''What took you so long?'' --Elle J Small
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Nothing more can be said about this album. It's a push away traditional hip-hop with true British feel, and the songs with Corinne Bailey Rae and Leesun are too good to miss.
If you're a fan of hip-hop, trip hop, introspective rap, jazz, or chill-out (this album just about spans this many genres), this album is a must for you.
If you're a fan of hip-hop, trip hop, introspective rap, jazz, or chill-out (this album just about spans this many genres), this album is a must for you.
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Really fresh and REALLY Solid progressive hip hop.
25 Jan 2011
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Strictly speaking instrumentally this album reminds me a lot of q-tips latest and greatest effort, 'The Renaissance'. As I'm still listening to it right now, I'm finding a lot of percussion resemblance to some of the Roots newer stuff also. I'm really diggin this album. I don't buy a lot of new hip hop records but this is the Modern sound that SOUNDS right. (think about how unique q-tip's new age sound is). All the instrumentation is live, but it's got lots of soul and groove to it. I heard about Testament (The one on the cover, although many artist perform on the album) from this site I just recently came across (subsoniqradio.com). It's an internet radio/show/blog that's sort of a front for good progressive modern hip hop, not the trash on public radio. I'm not really sure about his background but I think he is classically trained in piano, so you'll hear a lot of good chords and rhodes and stuff, but there are some off the wall tracks too like "Harmony" which is mostly percussion... it's got a real "world" sound to it.
I can't really talk about lyrics because I never pay attention to lryics but if you want some good solid musicality, stuff that really opens your mind and makes you think than you need to pick this one up. Support the underground artists.
I can't really talk about lyrics because I never pay attention to lryics but if you want some good solid musicality, stuff that really opens your mind and makes you think than you need to pick this one up. Support the underground artists.
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