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Originally Posted by noisereductions
New Atmosphere album is good.
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There's a new Atmosphere album?
(Sigh) ... I'm trying to be interested, but I just can't get there. It's just like the rock thing. New Atmosphere is just new Atmosphere. Remember when Atmosphere was actually
new? That was pretty cool.
I also passed on the most recent Aesop Rocky. Actually, I did give it a couple quick listens, but not enough to let it sink in. It's just really hard to get genuinely psyched about something like that. That new Snoop album? Cool-Aid? His supposed "return to form" (which I've discovered is industry-speak for "out of ideas") was just... aack! Blech! Why?! At least the new Dino album has some moments that make my ears and brain feel nice, and take me back a bit.
Hip-hop is necessarily evolutionary. When rap artists stagnate, or become obsolete, it's even more pathetic than when it happens to rock-type acts, and that's
because rap is and always has been about keeping one foot in the past, and kicking the other straight into the future. When rap gets stuck in the present, it's a fate worse than death. Hip-hop was supposed to be a solution, an answer to rock's slow demise. Now, most of it might as well be Tom Petty. More of the same.
Though maybe I should listen to this new Atmosphere before waxing pedantic about how irrelevant I think it is. But hey, this is the Internet with a capital "I." If you can't talk shit about things you know nothing about here, then what's the goddamn point?!
I'll give it a spin.