DJ Abilities won the regional DMC turntable championship in 1999; that same year that Eyedea took top honors at the freestyle rap battle tournament Scribble Jam. Five years and a few collaborations later, the two Twin Cities natives released their flashiest yet most accessible record. E&A gets super-sick every so often with lyrical acrobatics and virtuoso scratching; dig Eyedea's Mach-1 flow on "Now" and Abilities killing it on the ones & twos in "Reintroducing." But they show off sporadically, focusing more on mastering that elusive trick, the gripping chill-out track; check out "Exhausted Love" and "Paradise" for prime examples.