Grayskul - Bloody Radio
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Artist: GrayskulEdition: Music CD
Format: Explicit Lyrics
CD Release Date: 2007-09-11
Music Label: Rhymesayers
Soundtracks:
- 3,000 Voices
- Virgina N.M.2
- Dope
- Bloody Radio
- How To Load A Tech - (with Cage)
- Missing - (with Andrea Zollo)
- Scarecrow
- Haunted
- Office, The - (with Slug Of Atmosphere/Aesop Rock)
- Is It Me
- Dance The Frantic - (with Pigeon John)
- Give Me Love
- Us
- Last Lullaby, The
- Heaven Is Still Coming
Free Music Notes for Bloody Radio
Free Music Review: 3-1/2 stars -- Don't touch that dial...
Hit: 3 Stars
Hip-hop duo Grayskul have been doing their thing for years, and they produced a well-received (well, in the underground, anyway) debut album in Deadlivers. Now, JFK and Onry Ozzborn (???) recorded a follow-up in Bloody Radio.
Looking at the album artwork as well as the album's title, people might think these guys are trying to spout some horrorcore (remember Gravediggaz?). But actually, the rhymes on here are pretty accessible, as shown by selections like "Missing", "The Office" and "Is It Me". "Us" has some solid production; and the necessary end-of-album spiritual track "Heaven is Still Coming" is also good, although I don't understand why rappers think using profanity in a song about God is a good idea.
Even though it's obvious that this album follows a radio theme, the radio skits at the end of most of the songs were still getting monotonous. I also think "How to Load a Tech" goes nowhere; and "Scarecrow" never should have made it out of the studio. But Bloody Radio is still a solid enough album for hip-hop heads.
Anthony Rupert
Bloody Radio Poster
Onry Ozzborn and JFK reign supreme as the ultimate practitioners of the hip-hop horror reel. But rather than dealing in the pedestrian violence of the city street, these Seattle rappers prefer the lyrically macabre lexicon of the grind house, spitting a fountain of feral imagery more familiar to slasher films than gangsta screeds. A veritable menagerie of revenants populates the songs of Bloody Radio, but balancing this revolving stable of spooks and ghouls, a real-life roster of indie hip-hop notables--Aesop Rock, Slug, Cage, Pigeon John--takes turns on the mic. On "Give Me Love," Ozzborn adds to this uncouth crowd with the whimsical genealogy of at least seven of his alter-egos, delivered in a set of hilariously head-spinning verses. Elsewhere, "Scarecrow" hammers piles of handclaps and a driven six-beat (a hip-hop rarity, to say the least) into a backing track worthy of a Halloween party hosted by Outkast. Despite the fantastic brutality implied by legions of demons, devils, villains, voodoo, serpents, scoundrels, and serial killers, Grayskul's savage poetics offer a surprisingly fresh take on hip-hop violence. It's about time. --Jason KirkBorn out of the Pacific Northwest's Oldominion hip-hop collective, Onry Ozzborn and JFK emerged as Reason and Fiddleback Recluse in 2004, forming the righteously eerie alliance known as Grayskul. Always reinventing themselves, the two return as Count Draven (Onry) and Count Magnus (JFK) to deliver this release; reverse brainwash music for today's hip-hop listeners, typically force-fed imaginary genres. Grayskul smashes these genres seamlessly into one while interweaving all with message, substance, concepts, wittiness, opinion, and most of all, honesty while still maintaining a sense of humor, imagination, and originality.
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