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 Click for larger image. | Leaf - Made Into Itself CD
Suspicious Records SUS001 |
The first release for Hive sublabel Suspicious Records, Made Into Itself is smoke and poetry spun into crystalline threads of sound. Instrumental Hip Hop and heart-heavy tripnotica for a new listener - no bullshit cliches or worn out formulas guiding this release. Sticky beats, live violins, abused samplers, and silk-dripping voices have conspired to bring the sound of nighttime air and city solitude to life.
Made Into Itself is a dirty, city night
masterpiece - recalling the best moments of Massive Attack's seminal
Mezzanine album, Tricky's darker compositions, and the decks-on-
Ritalin compositional genius of artists like DJ Signify and DJ
Shadow, this album is a must have for fans of the genre. Pushing
well outside the confines of Trip Hop and experimental Hip Hop, Leaf
finds new veins coursing with beats and samples as obscure and
disjointed as chinese mandolin and 70's irish folk and ties them
together into a breathing, vibrant, gritty epic. Highly recommended
listening for driving, fucking, or taking to a cold street at dawn.
We are very excited to release this masterpiece of cement and krylon, and we hope that you will find it every bit as beautiful and essential as we do.
Tracklist:
01. Cut the Leash
02. Light Blue Morning
03. Coffee Drinker
04. Intelligent Design
05. Prism
06. Full Booklet
07. Nonsense Went
08. Lounge Dealers
09. Paperdress [new version]
10. Passing By
11. Even Holy Things Die
12. Glitch Exercise
13. His Whole Life
14. Sevenhundredeightytwo Ways to Wake Up
15. Song of Trees
Listen to the entire album here.
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