Blake9
11-21-2005, 03:34 PM
Of a record that is sold at Access Hip Hop! Big up Mark and the crew!
THE ACORNS - DROPPING FROM THE TREES (CANDLE WAX RECORDS)
Will this stand tall like a Giant Oak, or fall like a tree in the wood? Who cares when the emcee is called Mad Squirrel? Forget your Grandmasters and Grandwizards, Mad Lions and Mad Cobras, that’s a name to eat off. Headlines beg to be written about him being someone who goes nuts on the mic, though the palette of the emcee in question is more likely to pour a cup of Rosie than swig a 40oz. The Acorns are the Squirrel foraging with Blake 9’s ground-level, gloss-free beats heavily working the drum machine into a stripped down East Coast boom & pound. Initially in forceful form with the laser harpsichords of Mic Device, Squirrel soon evolves into an enthusiastic, singsong rhyme stylist somewhere between, bizarre as it sounds, Slick Rick and Paul Barman – check Those Who Know Networks – as the tradition of rhymer-producer sixth sense quickly stands firm. The big punches thrown on the brass blaster Party In My Neighbourhood, a colourful party jam acting as a tour guide for perspective tenants, slug it out with the clinical jazz horns and drum crunch of Six Years, and the Latin-lined Jollie Joe, almost a remix of the Sex and the City theme tune, to house the Squirrel’s excitable cramming of information on just about anything he can get his choppers around. Thing is, it takes several listens for his data blasting to stay in the brain. Not that Squirrel’s at all wordy, abstract or even over-excited, but sessions of intent listening are required to find any premier league quotable, probably best found in the dictionary-swallowing Big Words featuring Prego35 and gentle, PM Dawn-ish dating discourse Five She. Still, at 12 tracks and less than 40 minutes, giving this a couple of spins won’t hurt.
http://www.accesshiphop.com/store/?itemid=9812
THE ACORNS - DROPPING FROM THE TREES (CANDLE WAX RECORDS)
Will this stand tall like a Giant Oak, or fall like a tree in the wood? Who cares when the emcee is called Mad Squirrel? Forget your Grandmasters and Grandwizards, Mad Lions and Mad Cobras, that’s a name to eat off. Headlines beg to be written about him being someone who goes nuts on the mic, though the palette of the emcee in question is more likely to pour a cup of Rosie than swig a 40oz. The Acorns are the Squirrel foraging with Blake 9’s ground-level, gloss-free beats heavily working the drum machine into a stripped down East Coast boom & pound. Initially in forceful form with the laser harpsichords of Mic Device, Squirrel soon evolves into an enthusiastic, singsong rhyme stylist somewhere between, bizarre as it sounds, Slick Rick and Paul Barman – check Those Who Know Networks – as the tradition of rhymer-producer sixth sense quickly stands firm. The big punches thrown on the brass blaster Party In My Neighbourhood, a colourful party jam acting as a tour guide for perspective tenants, slug it out with the clinical jazz horns and drum crunch of Six Years, and the Latin-lined Jollie Joe, almost a remix of the Sex and the City theme tune, to house the Squirrel’s excitable cramming of information on just about anything he can get his choppers around. Thing is, it takes several listens for his data blasting to stay in the brain. Not that Squirrel’s at all wordy, abstract or even over-excited, but sessions of intent listening are required to find any premier league quotable, probably best found in the dictionary-swallowing Big Words featuring Prego35 and gentle, PM Dawn-ish dating discourse Five She. Still, at 12 tracks and less than 40 minutes, giving this a couple of spins won’t hurt.
http://www.accesshiphop.com/store/?itemid=9812