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MH-264 K-The-I??? - Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow  K-The-I??? marks a thunderous return to Mush with his latest full-length, Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow. Production on the album is handled entirely by Thavius Beck, his first project since he finished work on Saul Willaims' Niggy Tardust alongside Trent Reznor. Where his debut, Broken Love Letter, focused on past loves gone wrong, Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow is a collection of songs about the MC's cross country relocation, and trying to come to terms with how his life has changed from that. The result is a work of singular focus that catches K-The-I??? at his strongest, dropping ingenious lyrics over Blade Runner beats. The album features a stellar line-up of guest MCs as High Priest of a newly reunited Antipop Consortium, Busdriver, Subtitle, Scribble Jam winner Nocando, Vyle, and Mestizo all drop in. Thavius Beck even leaves the producer's desk and steps in front of the mic for a track. For fans looking for an album that ties hip-hop's past, present and future, K-The-I???'s Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow delivers. |
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| K's back and kicking - stand clear - NME / Rewards as much as it refuses to compromise - The Wire / Another strong notch on the post of lyrically-progressive hip-hop - Hip-Hop Connection / Go cop this s**t; it's the future of hip-hop - Lost At Sea / Few rappers think to use words like "polyocular"; fewer manage to make them funky. - Q / K-the-I??? has a bright future ahead. - XLR8R |
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| Going in off the deep end and landing in leftfield Los Angeles, K-The-I??? lets off El-P-honouring cluster bombs and sonic booms. "Before the Session" and the dystopian "Lead The Floor" – talking of Def Jux, there's Camu Tao's "Hold the Floor" given a brutal reboot - boast synths that'll break the sound barrier and tell you how advanced the question marked-Nostradamus likes his mathematics. Gripping hard-shelled space funk where the quietest moments are manhandled just as callously, the G-forces of producer Thavius Beck rattle cheekbones for K to wade into, all sci-fi sabres blazing. It’s a shot from outside right that’s verbose without being frustrating or unfriendly; the sounds are extra terrestrially intimidating but not uninviting, and the chaos is a challenge, but done, well… Orderly. The coordinates plot collision courses, yet K’s ever-enthusiastic stockpiling of verbs, like Vast Aire were he to stop shrugging and start pulling his finger out, means Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow won’t simply burnt out into the atmosphere. Adventuring at a fair lick, "Cell-Shaded/Daydreams/Nightmares" doesn’t hold back on dictionary-devouring consciousness as the over-egged title sells. The use of poodle-haired, screeching stairways to heaven on the consecutive ‘Never Heard It Done Like This’ and "Just Listen" gives The I a silver-suited superhero welcome. "Let's Make Moves" essentially turns into a booty-hunting club banger, while "Stylin'" sounds like the triumphant homecoming fanfare for the returning cosmonaut, multiplying the syllables for a hero's welcome. Well accompanied by indie tunnellers Busdriver, Nocando and Mestizo, K-The-I??? is a super-sharp shooter for all the time-zones he covers. - Fact |
