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SAGE FRANCIS - Human The Death Dance
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The most honest and true hip hop album since the Marshal Mathers LP. "This is hip-hop for the people, (the people) stop calling it emo. WAAA"...full text |
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| There's a whole hell of a lot of reasons to like Sage Francis. On his latest album, Human the Death Dance there are sixteen reasons, all with track numbers, but there's more to it than just his music. He's a literate and poetic hip-hop artist who looks more like a bouncer than the talent. He lays his life out on the line with every beat, holding nothing back, and when he's not doing that he's voicing his political views, popular or otherwise. He collaborates with the most unlikely partners including Bonnie "Prince" Billy on "Sea Lion" from his last album....full text |
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| With 2005's A Healthy Distrust, Sage Francis ditched introspection, the meat and potatoes of his earlier work, for fire-breathing activism. And who could blame him? A president he didn't vote for had just won another four years-- missteps into lecturing could be forgiven. The old Francis, the quirky, quipping storyteller, triumphantly returns on Human the Death Dance, his second record on Epitaph, to his unique blend of diaristic, down-to-earth meditations, eerie soundscapes, and loopy abstraction....full text |
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