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Thorns (Beans Album)
''Thorns'' is a 2008 studio album by American rapper Beans, released on Adored and Exploited. It includes contributions from Dabrye and Holy Fuck. Critical reception Steve Glencross of '' The List'' gave the album 4 stars out of 5 and described it as "a hard-hitting and personal work." Roque Strew of ''Pitchfork A pitchfork (also a hay fork) is an agricultural tool with a long handle and two to five tines used to lift and pitch or throw loose material, such as hay, straw, manure, or leaves. The term is also applied colloquially, but inaccurately, to th ...'' gave the album a 7.5 out of 10, saying, "''Thorns'' proves that Beans can smoothly career between maximalism and minimalism when he's in his element, building on the sci-fi slam poetry heritage he created with High Priest, M. Sayyid, and Earl Blaize." Track listing References External links * {{Authority control 2008 albums Beans (rapper) albums ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beans (rapper)
Robert Edward Stewart II, also known as Beans is a rapper from White Plains, New York. He was a member of the underground hip hop group Antipop Consortium. He is a founder of the record label Tygr Rawwk Rcrds. Style With his distinctive, fast-flowing and poetic style, Beans amalgamates witty, thoughtful lyrics with his own productions of "Chunky psychedelic electro-hop." According to the Pitchfork Media review for the album ''Thorns'', "The MC is simply good at what he's good at, putting together bushy, crooked beats with rhymes that are both confessional and evasive." History Beans has released two LPs and one EP on AntiPop Consortium's former label Warp Records since launching his solo career in 2003: ''Tomorrow Right Now'', ''Now Soon Someday'' EP and ''Shock City Maverick''. The third solo album ''Only'' was released on Thirsty Ear Recordings in 2005, followed by the fourth album ''Thorns'' on Adored And Exploited in 2007 In 2011, Beans released the fifth solo album, ''End I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dabrye
Tadd Mullinix or Dabrye is an American musician from Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States, also known by the aliases James T. Cotton and SK-1. During his adolescent years, he grew up in Troy, MI. His ''Winking Makes a Face'' was the first album released by Ann Arbor's Ghostly International. Parting with the IDM sound of ''Winking...'', the first Dabrye album was 2001's ''One/Three'', whose take on instrumental hip-hop paralleled the work of artists such as Prefuse 73. His early influences are White Zombie and 7 Seconds. His first band in high school was Battery 3, a shoegazing takeoff of the band Spacemen 3. Successive Dabrye projects included 2004's "Game Over" single, which featured MC work by Jay Dee and Phat Kat – the single was a precursor to the second Dabrye full-length ''Two/Three'', which includes other notable underground figures like MF DOOM, Beans, Vast Aire, and Big Tone, and features art by France's WK Interact. Mullinix's work as Dabrye has been met with accl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shock City Maverick
''Shock City Maverick'' is a 2004 studio album by American rapper Beans, released on Warp. Critical reception At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, ''Shock City Maverick'' received an average score of 65% based on 18 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Derek Miller of ''Pitchfork'' gave the album a 6.8 out of 10, commenting that "Beans always had a tendency to reach hard for coffee-shop poesie, but his brash schoolboy taunts sink past angstful overextension." Stefan Braidwood of ''PopMatters'' gave the album 5 stars out of 10, saying, "His beats continue to be hypnotically bare-boned, old skool synth assault platforms, over which he then reels you in with his ceaseless syllabic slurry, his lyrics almost irrelevant as his ridiculous flow blurs everything into an inescapable rhythm." Track listing References External links * ''Shock City Maverick''at Warp Warp, warped or warping may refer to: Arts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
End It All
''End It All'' is a 2011 studio album by American rapper Beans, released on Anticon. Produced by Four Tet and Tobacco, among others, it features a guest appearance from Tunde Adebimpe. Critical reception At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, ''End It All'' received an average score of 68% based on 15 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Eric Grandy of ''Pitchfork'' gave the album a 7.3 out of 10, calling it "another well-earned notch in Beans' solo belt and a testament to the strength of his artistic vision". Bram Gieben of '' The Skinny'' gave the album 4 stars out of 5, saying, "Crucially, at 33 minutes, and most tracks under four, ''End It All'' never outstays its welcome." Track listing Personnel Credits adapted from liner notes. * Beans – vocals * Dan Huron – recording * Earl Blaize – recording * Fred Ones – recording * Daddy Kev Kevin Marques Moo (born 1974), better known by his stage n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AllMusic
AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on musicians and bands. Initiated in 1991, the database was first made available on the Internet in 1994. AllMusic is owned by RhythmOne. History AllMusic was launched as ''All Music Guide'' by Michael Erlewine, a "compulsive archivist, noted astrologer, Buddhist scholar and musician". He became interested in using computers for his astrological work in the mid-1970s and founded a software company, Matrix, in 1977. In the early 1990s, as CDs replaced LPs as the dominant format for recorded music, Erlewine purchased what he thought was a CD of early recordings by Little Richard. After buying it he discovered it was a "flaccid latter-day rehash". Frustrated with the labeling, he researched using metadata to create a music guide. In 1990, in Big Rapids, Michigan, he founded ''All Music Guide' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The List (magazine)
''The List'' is a digital guide to arts and entertainment in the United Kingdom. The company's activities include events data gathering, content syndication, and running a network of websites carrying listings and editorial, covering film, eating and drinking, music, theatre, visual art, dance, kids and family, clubs and the Edinburgh Festivals. Originally launched in 1985 as a fortnightly arts and entertainment magazine covering Edinburgh and Glasgow, ''The List'' magazine switched in 2014 to publishing every two months throughout the year, and weekly during the Edinburgh Festivals in August. History ''The List'' is an independent limited company and was founded in October 1985 by Robin Hodge (publisher) and Nigel Billen (founding editor). The first editors were Nigel Billen and Sarah Hemming. In 2007 the company launched its listings website. In June 2016, ''The Sunday Times Scotland'' launched a fortnightly events guide pullout section, produced in collaboration with ''The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pitchfork (website)
''Pitchfork'' (formerly ''Pitchfork Media'') is an American online music publication (currently owned by Condé Nast) that was launched in 1995 by writer Ryan Schreiber as an independent music blog. Schreiber started Pitchfork while working at a record store in suburban Minneapolis, and the website earned a reputation for its extensive coverage of indie rock music. It has since expanded and covers all kinds of music, including pop. Pitchfork was sold to Condé Nast in 2015, although Schreiber remained its editor-in-chief until he left the website in 2019. Initially based in Minneapolis, Pitchfork later moved to Chicago, and then Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Its offices are currently located in One World Trade Center alongside other Condé Nast publications. The site is best known for its daily output of music reviews but also regularly reviews reissues and box sets. Since 2016, it has published retrospective reviews of classics, and other albums that it had not previously review ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spin (magazine)
''Spin'' (stylized in all caps) is an American music magazine founded in 1985 by publisher Bob Guccione, Jr. Now owned by Next Management Partners, the magazine is an online publication since it stopped issuing a print edition in 2012. History Early history ''Spin'' was established in 1985 by Bob Guccione, Jr. In August 1987, the publisher announced it would stop publishing ''Spin'', but Guccione Jr. retained control of the magazine and partnered with former MTV president David H. Horowitz to quickly revive the magazine. During this time, it was published by Camouflage Publishing with Guccione Jr. serving as president and chief executive and Horowitz as investor and chairman. In its early years, ''Spin'' was known for its narrow music coverage with an emphasis on college rock, grunge, indie rock, and the ongoing emergence of hip-hop, while virtually ignoring other genres, such as country and metal. It pointedly provided a national alternative to ''Rolling Stone's'' more e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holy Fuck
Holy Fuck is a Canadian electronica band from Toronto. They were a part of Dependent Music, a music label and artist collective that began in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia in 2004 until its closing. They were then a part of the Young Turks label and in 2016 they signed with Innovative Leisure. The band uses live instrumentation and miscellaneous instruments and non-instruments (including a 35 mm film synchronizer, toy keyboards and toy phaser guns) to achieve electronic-sounding effects without the use of laptops or programmed backing tracks. According to Pitchfork Media, "The band was formed with the intent of creating the equivalent of modern electronic music without actually using the techniques— looping, splicing, programming and the like—of that music." History Since their formation in 2004, Holy Fuck have performed at Coachella (supporting Brooklyn rapper Beans who recruited the band to serve as his backing unit), the CMJ Music Marathon, the Halifax Pop Explosion, POP ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2008 Albums
The following is a list of Album, albums, Extended play, EPs, and Mixtape, mixtapes released in 2008. These albums are (1) original, i.e. excluding Reissue, reissues, Remasters, remasters, and Compilation album, compilations of previously released recordings, and (2) WP:MUS, notable, defined as having received significant coverage from reliable sources independent of the subject. For additional information about bands formed, reformed, disbanded, or on hiatus, for deaths of musicians, and for links to musical awards, see 2008 in music. First quarter January February March Second quarter April May June Third quarter July August September Fourth quarter October November December References {{DEFAULTSORT:2008 albums 2008 albums, 2008-related lists, Albums Lists of albums by release date, 2008 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
