Mar

24

Dalek: Absence

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Dalek plays hip hop unlike any you’ve heard before. This is powerful stuff. Some of these tracks are the most dark and sinister sounding songs I’ve heard in a long time. Its actually heavier than most metal I’ve heard recently and they do this without playing metal guitar riffs. The whole album is great but the 3rd song, Culture for Dollars, is just immense. After listening to this on headphones the beats just seem to stick in my head forever. Read more

Feb

23

Dälek: Abandoned Language ‘Free MP3′

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This is some pretty heavy stuff(although this album is their “lightest” sound yet), and it’s done mostly without instruments(think more a freight train locking up it’s brakes), resulting in some engaging yet ear shattering concoctions. Again though, by the end of the album it has a tendency to sound formulaic due to the MC’s even keel delivery throughout, over tracks that often erupt for the chorus and drop back down for the verses(there’s also a tendency for the music to overpower the rhymes making them hard to decipher). Read more