[.ca] Fantastic Damage

From Amazon.co.uk:
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

dear el-p,:
this album is total crap. if you want real experimental hip-hop check out the anticon crew. there is nothing "new" about any of this sludge...just listen to the samples to experience the pain this man has inflicted upon society. he should be caned...or flogged...or something that involves a sack of oranges.

Visionary:
Everything about this is visionary. Everyone has their own style, MF Doom playing with jazz forms, Mr. Lif doing his funky PE type thing, and then we El-P doing his almost Warp records inspired glitch hop. Don't take the "glith" term too literally. This album is the first real album for the future of underground hip hop, when many people refuse to continue and stay complacent. El-P spues lyrics on society, Enron and its truly amazing. This is probably one of the noisiest hip hop records I've ever heard, truly innovative and intelligent.

REVIEW OF A GREAT ALREADY CLASSIC ALBUM:
"WHY DON'T YOU WRITE A REVIEW OF MY AS/S??"

Give the album a chance!:
I understand what some people will say when they read my review: "How can you give this album 5 stars! It just sounds like noise to me!" I can see their point of view but the only problem with their resoning is that it's not developed. I was just like them, ready to go on amazon.com and vent my hate at having paid $14 for the album, and I can see that some people have already jumped the gun and wrote their hate online, giving the album 1 star and saying that it was garbage. Well allow me to retort: This album is not for everybody. At first listen it will seem like cacophonous noise and badly timed rhymes. But to get your money's worth out of this album you will have to do only one thing: listen again! And again, and again...and again! After probably the fourth or fifth time you will see the masterpiece that EL-P intended this album to be. It will all come together I promise, and you will really start to feel this CD. The point i'm trying to make out of all my yapping is to give this CD a chance! Don't throw it away until you understand it!

Fabulous:
I can lisen to this CD over and over and over and it never gets old. I love it. El-P is a genious.

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