Prefuse 73 - Preparations - 2x LP Vinyl+CD

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Album:
Preparations
Artist:
Prefuse 73
Format:
12" Vinyl
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Preparations marks a definite evolution of the glitch-driven hip-hop we've come to expect from Scott Herren, featuring productions laced with strings, elaborate jazz-flavoured arrangements, and of course the requisite supply of chop-and-change bitcrushed drums. After the all-too familiar start provided by a brief intro track and 'Beaten Thursdays', further down the line the vastly more interesting 'Prog Version Slowly Crushed' arrives as a musical feast condensed into five minutes, sporting some supremely wigged metallic flange as well as impressively inflated orchestrations. It's all very lavish, but for those after something a bit weirder, 'Aborted Hugs' with its staccato plucks and dissonant brass supplies ample quirk. There's a couple of great vocal tracks here too, the pick being 'The Class Of 73 Bells' which steers well clear of the sort of slice 'n' dice approach you might attribute to the Herren of old, instead just laying on a truckload of choral harmonic bliss. Sure, Preparations is no stylistic quantum leap, but nor does it actually need to be: as far as instrumental hip-hop goes, you'd be hard-pressed to find anything more intricate, meticulously assembled or more sonically adventurous than this. As if the album itself wasn't enough of a draw, it comes complete with a bonus CD, Interregnums, drawing together the instrumental and orchestral source material that shapes the bedrock of Preparations. In this format the music comes without beats - in some cases remaining untouched by any major electronic treatments, essentially leaving you with a second, very different Prefuse 73 album to contend with.
Preparations:

A1 From The East Intro

A2 Beaten Thursdays

A3 Aborted Hugs

A4 The Class Of 73 Bells

B1 Girlfriend Boyfriend

B2 Smoking Red

B3 Prog Version Slowly Crushed

B4 Noreaster Cheer

C1 Let It Ring

C2 17 Seconds Interlude

C3 I Knew You Were Gonna Go

C4 Pomade Suite Version One

D1 Spaced + Dissonant

D2 Preparation Outro Version

Interregnums (Bonus CD):

1 For Her Non-Place

2 Preparation One

3 Thorough Light

4 Spacious And Dissonant Part 2

5 Pitu

6 Preparation Two

7 Over Ensembles

8 The Last

9 Sunbeamstress

10 Humidity Interlude

11 The Ground We Lift

12 Preparation Three

13 Let It Ring Ensembles

14 Out We Will Go

15 Prepared As It Was