This is an album that should be much better known. Way more than the sum of its parts (which are deceptively simple). Unlike other cut-n-pasters she always exceeds the merely clever, and ends up creating genuinely moving textures. Listen to track 4 and try to resist its plaintive charms....
One of those albums that gets better every single time you hear it.
This album can either be a guilty pleasure or something that u can nod your head to on a lazy afternoon. Every track is consistently on a hip-hop tip. It might not mix well w/ your crunk/hyphy set, but man, it sure is sunny and optimistic. Put it this way, if Portishead were cheerful, they'd sound like this...
This is one of those easy going albums that get spun when that late afternoon sun is heavy and low in the sky and you have nowhere to go. It mixes low-fi indie rock elements with innocuous hip-hop elements and arrives at an ethereal urban folk, a quasi Folk Implosion married to Luscious Jackson. The music isn't ground breaking or life changing but it does satisfy when you want to disengage your brain, shift into fifth gear and chase the sun down in a lazy sort of way.
