The career of Company Flow mastermind El-P serves as a sharp counterpoint to the rise and fall of Rawkus Records, the label that released the group's full-length debut, Funcrusher Plus. That album earned the group a fervent cult following while helping ...more
PopMatters
We've all been waiting for this one. Since El-P's trio, Company Flow, broke up in March of 2000, we've all been sitting tight, praying, hoping, and most definitely fiending for another product of El-P's genius. When his young Def Jux label dropped ...more
spikemagazine.com
There's something bleak and claustrophobic brewing in the beats and rhymes of New York City, and here it boils over into a seventy-minute scream of anger, apocalypse and funkiness, shot through with a menacing surrealism. The music is manic, pushed into ...more
Dusted Magazine
Sounds of El-P: cheese-grater harsh on metal skin, Mad-Max in Thunderdome, robot screams, Tijuana-turned Escape from L.A., Bladerunner New York nightmares. Promobot 3000 says: this is frightening. Are the vocals mixed too low? Maybe it’s just hard to ...more
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