Busdriver - RoadKillOvercoat
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Free Music Review: Something Different From Busdriver
Hit: 4 Stars
This album is not like other busdriver albums - but then again, no two busdriver albums are the same. This one features more melody and less frenetic rap than most of his recordings. The single Sun Showers stands out as a great song, but unfortunately it is unique on this album. The rest of the songs feature more rapping and less singing, but still sit somewhere on the fence between genres. This album is catchy and full of intelligent wordplay, but it is too short to fully satisfy - I think it could use one more track that busdriver sings on - or maybe it's just that I can't get over SunShowers. Free Music Review: The Most Inconsistent Artist I've Ever Heard...
Hit: 2 Stars
Busdriver is a total anomaly... He's not BAD, per se, just not consistently good. He's got skill, imagination, vocabulary, and probably an extreme case of Attention Deficit Disorder. What he doesn't have: patience(refer to ADD... his raps are always frenzied), rhythm (his voice alternates in pace completely independent of the backing track most of the time), and any form of coherent sound.
I don't dislike the better thought-out songs, or alternately maybe I got on the bandwagon late; I was seduced by Casting Agents and Cowgirls, the most pop-accessible song he's ever done, apparently. There are six more albums, which all wander all over the place. A record will have some good songs, some completely unlistenable tracks of pure noise, and a lot of mediocre material that wouldn't even serve as filler or B-side fodder for a more consistent artist.
Busdriver's niche would seem to be the infinitesimally small genre of "avant-garde hip hop", in which I have never found an artist to reside. He's got very eclectic friends providing beats and guest raps, it's just not anything that most people are accustomed to calling music. If I had to sum Busdriver up in a sentence, it would be: Saul Williams wannabe with half the talent.
Free Music Review: Subtitle + Subtle
Hit: 4 Stars
Regan Farquhar aka Busdriver, L.A.'s non-hip-hop/hip-hopper, returns with his first stab at the semi-majors - a stab indeed. He's odder than ever, his oft-relayed frustrations of the rap game and personal issues (i.e. "Cuz before we met you thought that hoodrats lay eggs"/"Last year I was passing out Green Party leaflets while you're at the chalet on ski trips.") matched by three-dollar bill Nobody's production, Daddy Kev and Boom Bip's mixing and a cameo by CocoRosie's Bianca Casady ("Go Slow"). Be it stuttering synthpop ("Sun Shower"), neo-crunk (("Bloody Paw on the) Kill Floor"), jock-jam beats ("Kill Your Employer (Recreational Paranoia Is the Sport of Now") or clicking folk ("Dream Catcher's Mitt"), Farquhar can take it, spitting with the precision of a world record holding tongue-twisting auctioneer. And, really, isn't anyone who can use the word polyglot and rap "hemorrhages with a carbonated fizz" probably worth a piece of your day? Free Music Review: Quantum Leap Forward
Hit: 4 Stars
The last Busdriver I've heard was "Temporary Forever", which, while impressive, kind of was less than spectacular DJ work, and sounded somewhat like an updated Fuschnickens album. This latest release caught me by surprise...it's (thankfully) far from being catchy, but is dense, funky and uncompromising, and is sure to stand up to many repeat listenings. Simply, he is in his own world now. His lyrics are dopier-than-thou, with that fast delivery he's seemed to have cribbed from the above Fu. He's much better than that group, however, as the DJ work on this album is far more sophisticated than on his previous above-mentioned album. Stellar work - he's really more impressive than Outkast is right now, and the torch of hip-hop is born forward, despite all odds.Free Music Review: Nice addition to collection, nothing spectacular
Hit: 3 Stars
I had never heard of Busdriver until I got the email from Amazon. Based on the reviews, I immediately bought it. I was looking forward to the album, but it was not what I thought it would be. At first I listened to the first song, liked it, and then continued listening .... then I immediately pulled it out of my cd player. The more chances I have given it, the more I have liked it. However, this just is not my style of rap.
- He is very talented ... lyrically
- His beats are alright, but nothing dungeon - hypnotizing - underground feeling ... pretty electronic and fruity loop sounding
- His lyrics are puns and pokes at the music industry
I mean, its decent music. The main reason I am not a fan is that his accent is too thick. He was born in California, however he sounds of a different nationality. Nothing against that by no means, but his lyrics are too hard to understand. He has a quick delivery, thus his accent gets in the way of hearing the lyrics. Furthermore, he just doesn't have his own unique quality or style that you hook onto. For example, MF Doom has the scratchy voice that grows on you. This guy is just like anyone else that can rap fast and produce decent loops on the machine.
Not a bad addition though, but I don't see myself listening to it too awful much.
- Rusty Rothwell
Louisville, KY
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