Elephant Eyelash
Anticon
2005
Rating: 8 hitchhikers out of 10
This is one of the more confounding, genre-bending, and intriguing albums I’ve head in quite some time. I have this natural tendency to compartmentalize things – this is “classic rock”, that is “hip-hop”, etc. But no matter what group you might have Why? pegged to belong in, chances are there are just as many valid arguments for why they shouldn’t be stuck with that group. They’re on the Anticon label, the stalwart of non-commercial hip-hop, and frontman for the group Yoni can often deliver his lyrics in a staccato fashion – but this is not rap music as most of us know it (Yoni was also a member of cLOUDEAD, yet another group that was hip-hop but maybe not really). The music is almost all electro-indie rock, not sounding like but possibly from the same family as some of that great german work from the Notwist, Barbara Morgenstern, Ms. John Soda, etc. Regardless of how you try to wrap your brain around this album, Elephant Eyelash is one of the catchiest releases I’ve had the pleasure to enjoy recently.
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