| ***Multi-colored, sticky, bursting with tiny fertile tadpoles, vaguely cosmic, and yet funny when smeared in inappropriate places. A new album from Infinite Livez is always a reason to cream your jeans, even if you're a major Hollywood star. Extracted live in single takes at a fertility clinic in Geneva's renowned sperm-banking district, Morgan Freeman's Psychedelic Semen sees Doctor Livez once again making beautiful music with jazz-glitch Europeans and matinee idols Pierre Audetat and Christophe Calpini (a.k.a. Stade), plus special guest emissions from the remarkable Joy Frempong and DJ Tendraw. Drawn from a DNA pool so confused and mysterious that it's best not to look for antecedents, this is the sound of William Blake wanking over a jazz mag while old-skool Dadaists form a guard of honor and fire great fountains of vanilla-flavored milkshake into the sky. Anyway, it's the best record you've ever been amused by and scared of in equal measure. If you don't get it, we don't get you and only Hell awaits your rotting corpse. "Sorta like Andre 3000 to the power of 1000, Infinite Livez is this country's most inventive MC. Now for the first time he's riding-- or rather writhing in and up around-- beats as freaky as his imagination. This is some wild and wacky stuff." --Simon Reynolds "One of the most idiosyncratic and creative voices in British rap. A kind of cockney Kool Keith." --The Wire "Demented Cockney bashment." --Vice 30-second MP3 excerpts: Hoxton Smoothie
Man Machine
On Illusion Featuring DJ Tendraw
Slack Babbath Featuring Joy Frempong
Clapped Out Datsun
Lol To The Depths Of Hell Featuring DJ Tendraw
Public Ultra Image Magnetic
I Was A Saddam Body Double Pt.2
Brand New Datsun
Track Ten Featuring Joy Frempong
Swaggamuffin Featuring Joy Frempong |
