k-os - Atlantis: Hymns for Disco
I'm turning to our neighbors to the north for today's musical selection. k-os' new album, Atlantis: Hymns for Disco, is a hip-hop hybrid consisting of indie pop, 70's funk, and 80's breakbeats not heard since the days of cardboard cutouts. The man spits and sings with a sense of urgency and rejoice. The production that accompanies each track is a musical journey of genre-hopping (not track to track, but within each song) that I liken to the Beastie Boys, Hello Nasty. Also, Buck 65 makes an appearance and brings along his country-tinged harmonicas over a sick as a dog beat.
Besides the new LCD Soundsystem, this is getting the most play for me in '07. You dig this, check out his previous two efforts and his guest shots with Broken Social Scene and that wicked remix he laces Feist's Mushaboom with. Dude's good.
6 comments:
This is a pretty good album.
I dig positive hip hop.
you should check out another Canadian by the name of Buck 65...he's been tagged as the Johnny Cash of hip hop.
The Johnny Cash of hip hop? That's like the saying the Sticky Fingaz of Baroque music.
Thanks for finally posting an article. See you next week...
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