''Flowers in the Pavement'' is the debut album by

Australian hip hop Australian hip hop traces its origins to the early 1980s and is largely inspired by hip hop and other urban musical genres from the United States. As the form matured, Australian hip hop has become a commercially viable style of music which i ...

group Bliss n Eso, which was released on 23 August 2004 via

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. "This Is for You" received airplay on

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's ''Home and Hosed'' program, which exclusively features Australian music. It was also played on NOVA FM. "This Is for You" and "Pigs in the Porn Trough" securing Bliss n Eso as the 'hip hop' category winners and 'artist of the year' nominees at the annual National Music Oz Awards in 2003 and 2004. "Hip Hop Blues" was produced by

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from

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. The group toured in support of the album, across Australia including dates in Adelaide, Canberra, Melbourne, Hobart and Brisbane.

Track listing

All songs written by Jonathon Notley and Max MacKinnon, except where notedAPRA database
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website (search each song title) # "Evolution" (intro) – 2:45 # "Creepy" – 5:24 # "Rubbed the Lamp the Wrong Way" (J. Notley, M. MacKinnon, Millis, C. Anquetil, C. Lee-Joe) – 4:37 # "Vagina Ice" (J. Notley, M. MacKinnon, C. Anquetil, C. Lee-Joe) – 3:23 # "Clean the Tub" – 0:59 # "Pigs in the Porn Trough" (J. Notley, M. MacKinnon, C. Anquetil, C. Lee-Joe) – 6:34 # "I Love You But..." – 0:19 # "Tunnel of Love" – 4:52 # "Greenhouse" (J. Notley, M. MacKinnon, Millis, C. Anquetil, C. Lee-Joe) – 4:50 # "Supermarket Chick" – 0:44 # "Get Amongst It" (J. Notley, M. MacKinnon, C. Anquetil, C. Lee-Joe) – 5:19 # "This is for You" – 3:36 # "Headless Princess" (featuring Ethic) – 7:09 # "Hip Hop Blues" – 4:00 # "Twisted Road" (J. Notley, M. MacKinnon, T. Ejjamai) – 4:00 # "Weathermen" – 3:35 # "Watchdog Water Dragons" – 5:17

Reception

Vaughan Healey of ''Cyclic Defrost'' felt that it is "a deceptively dense album: full of laddish appeal but balanced by peculiar turns, strong production values and a lyrical depth" with its tracks "structured around sophisticated metaphor and clever metre" and "it continues the Obese tradition of releasing idiosyncratic, upfront local hiphop."

References

{{Authority control 2004 debut albums Bliss n Eso albums