An-ten-nae Presents Acid Crunk Vol. 2

The “acid crunk” label here might be a bit of a red herring — most of the songs on this compilation have a stuttered, deep-synth sound that melds two other recent microgenres: crushing electro (ala Justice, sometimes half-jokingly referred to as “blog house”) and the glitchy instrumental hip-hop often called “wonky.” Think of Jay Dee’s (increasingly influential-seeming) Donuts given a dirty, dirty synth-bath. It’s too ADD to be funky half the time; the tracks on Acid Crunk are more like massive sonic cathedrals — big and bold.