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...Strokes--speed, swagger and hooks upon hooks--but instead of hipster navel gazing, Arctic Monkeys' singer Alex Turner looked at the world with a working-class smirk and turned a number of memorable phrases. ("There's only music/ So that there's new ringtones.") The first rock album in ages that feels dangerously smart...
...list producers (MF Doom, Madlib) as well as lesser-knowns (Fantom of the Beats), provide most of the songs on “More Fish” with hearty, soulful beats. Samples of classic soul tracks have always been fertile backgrounds for Ghost, and this album shows no exceptions. One standout here is the use of Michael Jackson’s “Ain’t No Sunshine” on “Street Opera.” But that’s not to say the album has only one sound; other tracks like...
...album is not without its flaws. The album seems to belong as much to Theodore Unit (Ghostface’s posse, which includes his 17-year-old son Sun God) as to the man himself. Unfortunately, none of his apprentices can approach his level of skill, although Sun God does manage to sound older than dad. Ghostface doesn’t even appear in “Gotta Hold On,” a track that seems somewhat out of place on the album both rhythmically and lyrically. There is also a “Back Like That?...
While “More Fish” isn’t Ghostface’s best work, it’s damn impressive that he could put together such a solid album out of outtakes. The fact that he’s so consistently good makes you wish he would leave his posse at home and go at it truly solo. But if he’s going to drop something this strong every ten months, we have no right to be picky...
...this only happened once, but I’m including it because I really hope it happens again. He was writing about realizing how far technology has come while sitting in a cab in France. “I got out my iPod and listened to a Stevie Nicks album,” he wrote. LOL to the max, people. Can you just imagine Thomas L. Friedman lightly bobbing his head up and down while listening to “Edge of Seventeen” in some foreign land? I can. And I LOL’d. 2. Made...