Smoke of Oldominion - Bleed
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Artist: Smoke of OldominionEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2006-09-26
Music Label: Super Happy Wax
Soundtracks:
- Intro
- Compress
- Sinners and Saints
- Killa
- Fog on the Shore (Featuring IamE)
- Saylavee
- Mudd
- Zebs Trippin
- Bleed (Featuring Yadira Brown)
- Gutter Psalm
- Supposed to Be (Featuring Simple, Akil)
- Played Yourself (Featuring JFK)
- Flower Venom
- Lullaby Yadira Brown
- Outro
Free Music Notes for Bleed
Free Music Review: BLEED is an epic album....
Hit: 5 Stars
Smoke, Bleed (Super Happy Wax Recordings) It took this Portland emcee four years to complete his debut, and it shows. [POST-HIP-HOP] Whenever somebody says their album was four years in the making, one wonders how much of that time was really spent contemplating and formulating an album and how much of it was spent getting high and watching Family Guy. Bleed, the debut album from Smoke of Oldominion, however, actually sounds like it took four years to make. Over the course of Bleed's 15 tracks, Smoke presents those four years of time-lapse emotional and stylistic growth. It's a portrait of the artist as a young nervous breakdown, wherein the emcee's own emotional and spiritual sanity fight for air under the massive structural collapse of hip-hop and the U.S. government. Think of a post-Sept. 11 hip-hop's OK Computer. The album starts with the scattered pops of a beaten old record and disjointed gangsta-rap squeals that soon fade into the punchy war-drums of "Compress," where the narrator opens with the line, "Look at myself like 'who's that?'" before the orders come down from the top in a megaphone blare: "March/ Kill/ Build/ Destroy/ March/ Build/ Kill/ Destroy." It becomes clear by the next track, "Sinners and Saints," that our narrator, if not Smoke himself, believes these are the end days. He makes a pretty convincing, rapid-fire argument to that effect, declaring that "the last page of history" has something to do with "hobblin' hope bearin' folk sharin' needle evil people tearin' soul shaking pill-popping goblin sniffing coke." When Smoke goes on these verbal rampages, it's almost impossible to follow him completely, but here he keeps the light on long enough to lay blame on both a "crooked son president" and himself, feebly admitting, "Killa, I'm tryin' to build the Tower of Babel out of 40 bottles and beer cans." The narrator turns not only to religion for solace, but to bling and broken-from-the-start relationships as well. By the end of the album, he's taking drugs that keep him awake for days on end ("Lullaby"). In true Thom Yorke form, Smoke spits a grip of seemingly incongruous phrases before calming down by taking another hit, when the voice of a drug-induced siren/angel sings him into death. After a short silence, seven minutes of ambient noises and sporadic techno-beats shoot like stars over faded AM radio signals, an eerily upbeat postscript to one of the most compelling stories a Northwest emcee has ever told.
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