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EL-P - I'll Sleep When You're Dead
| The Independent | | For a once revolutionary form of musical expression, hip-hop has proven remarkably easy to emasculate, a neutering only made possible by the eager co-operation of record labels, radio and MTV in promoting the dead-end culture of gangsta-rap at the expense of all other rap strains....full text |
| | IndieLondon | PRODUCER, emcee, composer, musician and label boss El-P returns with a blistering wake-up call in the form of his second solo album, I’ll Sleep When You’re Dead.
Four years in the making, the album is best described as a magnum opus and the purest distillation yet of El-P’s talents....full text |
| | NME | | El-P is the grand master of indie hip-hop. As a member of avant garde New York rap crew Company Flow he pretty much set the blueprint for weird, underground geek rap. His music has always been dense, dark and perverse and this is no different. The mistake often made by indie writers when approaching these hellish, paranoia-ridden swampscapes is to say that the rapper's influences lie beyond hip-hop - within the more critic-friendly genres of post-rock or art-punk....full text |
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