i havent really been blown away by a hip album since phantom power. my music @ work was ok and since then they've seemed to kinda go the rem route... making albums fans will listen to and enjoy, but not love, while the rest of the world ignores them.
Picked up my copy at HMV today. I think it's the best thing they've done since Phantom Power. Amazing album! By the way, if you wanna talk some Hip, there's plenty of discussion about the band and the new album over in this thread:
"I try my best to chug, stomp, weep, whisper, moan, wheeze, scat, blurt, rage, whine, and seduce. With my voice I can sound like a girl, the boogieman, a Theremin, a cherry bomb, a clown, a doctor, a murderer. I can be tribal. Ironic. Or disturbed. My voice is really my instrument."
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