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The debut solo album from El-P, Fantastic Damage finds this rap firebrand elucidating on the confrontational themes that have characterised his career to date. As the lodestar of influential hip-hop trio Company Flow, founder of independent hip-hop label Def Jux, and producer for Cannibal Ox's outstanding apocalyptic rap work The Cold Vein, El-P has indelibly stamped his name across the landscape of leftfield hip-hop. But Fantastic Damage is quite possibly his most extreme statement yet: a sprawling magnum opus of broiling anger and dysfunctional angst, expressed through his violent production techniques and satirical rhymes.
The debut solo album from El-P, Fantastic Damage finds this rap firebrand elucidating on the confrontational themes that have characterised his career to date. As the lodestar of influential hip-hop trio Company Flow, founder of independent hip-hop label Def Jux, and producer for Cannibal Ox's outstanding apocalyptic rap work The Cold Vein, El-P has indelibly stamped his name across the landscape of leftfield hip-hop. But Fantastic Damage is quite possibly his most extreme statement yet: a sprawling magnum opus of broiling anger and dysfunctional angst, expressed through his violent production techniques and satirical rhymes.
In spirit, the music echoes the revolutionary squall of the Bomb Squad, while not actually sounding a huge amount like it: the blistering funk of "Deep Space 9 mm" boasts a far more syrupy feel than Public Enemy's tight jams, while "Dead Disnee" boasts more in common with the modern wave of laptop-wielding electronica artists than any traditional rap groove. Rhyme-wise, too, this is a bleak work: "Stepfather Factory" envisages a menacing apocayptic future where errant parents are replaced by malfunctioning cyborgs, while "Deep Space 9 mm" finds El-P waxing unprintable about his former record label, Rawkus. At 70 minutes, it's a spot long--but anyone acquainted with El-P's earlier work should lap this up. --Louis Pattison
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Formerly a member of the seminal New York progressive/underground hip-hop crew Company Flow, El-P has made a name for himself in a crowded market with a churning musical and lyrical style that's reminiscent of an updated Sly Stone in his THERE'S A RIOT GOIN' ON period, complete with swampy, shape-shifting beats and spontaneous-sounding lyrics. The overall effect is mesmerising. Here the last 20 years of hip-hop seemto have been put into a blender and filtered, deconstructed, and reconstructed to produce a unique and enthralling whole.
On FANTASTIC DAMAGE, El-P oversees a kind of post-industrial R&B landscape, full of fleeting, terrifying imagery, electronic effects that disappear almost as soon as they're heard, and trance-like zombie rhythms that invade the subconscious. If it's not quite your big brother's hip-hop dance party, it's definitely a world that's simultaneously scarifying and fascinating, daring you to delve deeper inside it.
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