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...summer vacations with Jaws and The Deep has returned. But this time out, Peter Benchley has jettisoned the oversexed surf-and-turfers in favor of Timothy Burnham, a fortyish journalist turned speechwriter whose only obsession is quoting the wisdom of Samuel Johnson, as in ''No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.'' Burnham writes not only for money but for President Benjamin T. Winslow, bullying, foul-tongued and Johnsonesque (Lyndon, not Samuel), and the assignments are rarely more demanding than ''Representative Whipple has told me a great deal about the fine work you ladies are doing...
...Shadow, Camu Tao, El-P, RJD2, Blockhead. These are producers that I really respect and I wanted to do the opposite of what I was doing. We were gonna go a lot further with the music, but we decided to more with the story of the record and save the musical super-change for the next record...
...production, handled by Def Jux guru El-P, alongside other behemoths like DJ Shadow, Blockhead (Aesop Rock’s producer), as well as Cage’s long-time collaborator Camu Tao, snaps with aggressive buzzing thuds and lush melodic loops. El-P, who has a hand in more than half of the songs, opens with one of those rare productions where grinding guitar and a low end courtesy of the bassist from Yo La Tengo, actually work under the voice...
Though the tracks are glossy, and expertly tweaked, Cage sometimes sounds uncomfortable over their finished perfection. On “Too Heavy For Cherubs,” while recalling an abusive childhood, he sounds like he’s restraining himself from exploding out of the lazy Blockhead beat; you can almost hear him chomping on the bit shoved in his mouth. “Movies for the Blind” had a low-fi feel that his rabid delivery finds easier to inhabit...
...Rick Rubin album. I like that. Lyrically, I’m all over the place as well, so the production helps unify the album.” Murs’ Def Jux debut was a who’s who of underground producers, featuring El-P, Ant, RJD2 and Blockhead on songs that veered from battle raps to narratives and back. “I wanted to show everything I could do,” says Murs...