This album makes no senseon paper. I am going to dedicate a post a day to each album I feel really summed up this year or just gave me the best piece of art. Every genre I enjoy had powerhouse albums and new comers alike.
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As always, I’m looking for more great stuff to listen to, so please feel free to leave your own picks!Unfortunately there are no concert dates for BlakRoc scheduled in 2021. It was a little harder this year coming up with ten, but that doesn’t mean it was a bad year for music. As I do every year, I’m gonna list some albums here that kept my ears occupied more than others in 2010. Hand painted artwork of the legendary rap artist Notorious BIG. Number of items: 1 - Mint (M) - 1st Pressing More.
The Sword have followed through again with another showcase of towering and intricate riff-rock. Epic riffs, beautiful and haunting vocal melodies, and a sick dual drum assault.Every year there’s a “guitar album” I make sure to include, and this is it. This is their most accessible and best album in years, thanks again to the contribution of the Big Business dudes on rhythm and in harmony. MP3 Album.In high rotation on my iPod this year were:It seems a little weird putting one of the most peculiar yet uniquely charming metal bands of the past three decades in the top spot, but there’s no album I listened to more this year, and that’s always my primary criterion. Blakroc (Parental Advisory) LABEL: Blakroc Project. Blakroc - Blakroc (Parental Advisory).
I wasn’t a fan of catchall classic rock homage bands before, but there’s a lot to be said for paying tribute to the legends all at once through your own original music. Both are legends in their respective genres and they marry their talents beautifully on this album.On first listen this sounds like ’60s Dylan, ’70s Bowie, the Band and the Grateful Dead all crammed together. Each allows the other to flourish in the right spots on the right tracks, and when they come together it’s nothing short of stunning. But this album is so much more than just fusion of rap and reggae. It makes me want to plug in and make myself even deafer.Anyone familiar with both of these artists should know what to expect from a collaboration.
But when he’s just the drummer in what sounds like a standard bar band, I guess expectations should be lowered slightly. Their songs are both sweet and brutal, and you’d be hard-pressed to find a band nowadays that can pull that off effectively.Usually I’m all for anything Jack White puts his name on, but I was pretty disappointed with this band’s first album. Building off their last Red Album, this one carves out a deeper sound with more complicated guitar melodies and vocal ranges. Baroness is the most under-appreciated band in modern metal, and it’s really a shame. Whenever I put this album on, I almost always find myself listening to it the whole way through.This is probably “guitar album #2” on my list, but with a little more sauce.
Wab embodies what it is to be a young, educated, and dedicated Anishinaabe in today’s Canada. It’s only natural that a stripped-down band that specializes in rhythm and blues makes a foundation for some pretty enjoyable rap music.While not his official follow-up to Live by the Drum, it’s a stellar mixtape featuring some of his greatest musician friends from Winnipeg and beyond. They basically made a hip hop album with the RZA and a whole bunch of other dudes (including a resurrected Ol’ Dirty Bastard) and it kicks ass. It was pretty alright, but I thought this was their better recent effort. She saved my life at Bonnaroo.Everyone and their grandma loved the Black Keys‘ Brothers album this year. Not to take away at all from Alison Mosshart – she’s an amazing singer with a huge live presence.
The riffs also begin simply on other standout tracks like “Frost Hammer” and “How Dark We Pray”, but as the cornerstones of most High on Fire songs, they unravel into beautifully complex heavy metal melodies. But it’s Pike’s expansion on that seemingly basic theme along with the ferocious bass licks and pounding drums that elevate this music well above that basic comparison. A searing finger-tapping opening riff reminiscent of a cross between Black Sabbath and Van Halen. Matt Pike and his band have honed a very distinct brand of metal that’s based entirely on fast, loud, and ethereal guitar chops, rounded out by growling vocals and the tightest and heaviest rhythm section in the genre.As usual, the album comes out swinging with the title track. High on Fire has been specializing in brutally powerful riff metal for a long time, and their formula will have the meekest music enthusiasts ready to pound down brick walls. When that rush of adrenaline is pumping through your body, there are very few fitting genres of music.
But as the 1990s progressed, bands devoted their whole careers to mashing rap and rock, and with each copycat the music got progressively worse and we listeners got dumber for hearing it.But finally in 2010, Blackroc has reversed that trend. Then a couple years later, the Judgment Night soundtrack came out, a full album’s worth of rap/rock/metal collaborations from the most popular artists of the time. Then Anthrax and Public Enemy did a better job with a heavier “Bring the Noise” in 1991. But if there’s anything metal fans appreciate, it’s consistency, and you can count on these guys to get your adrenal gland pumping album after album.Aerosmith and Run-DMC thought it’d be a good idea back in 1986 to record a rap/rock collaboration of “Walk this Way” and bring it to the mainstream. Fans won’t hear much of a departure from that album.
Regardless, this album has restored the faith of music fans who had to endure the all the garbage of the late 1990s.One of my all-time favourite albums is Joanna Newsom’s Ys. Perhaps they waited until now to release it because of the saturation in the rap/rock genre earlier in their careers. Almost any of their older albums could have easily become Blakroc, because of the universal riffs and rhythms. The Black Keys have always played stripped-down and soulful blues-rock – something that’s very translatable to hip-hop. They even dug up some old Ol’ Dirty Bastard vocal tracks and made a song around them.It’s a very energetic and eclectic project, due largely to the obvious enthusiasm and dedication of everyone involved. Here you have soulful melodies and beats rapped and sung over by some of today’s best artists in rap and R & B, like Raekwon, the RZA, Mos Def, Pharoahe Monch, Ludacris, Q-Tip and Nicole Wray.
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