Mos def the ecstatic cd4/14/2023 ![]() Of course, these ditties are couched in nasty, stinging skronk and often extend into six-minute-plus ruminations on love, death and unrewarded desire. The group even embraces - wait for it - harmonies. ![]() Hitting a second stride with “Murray Street” in 2002, the band maintains its leadership position among melodic noise-makers with “The Eternal,” which is so chock-full of hummable pop hooks you’d think a hit doctor lent a hand. ![]() The beats are better, too: There’s an angry tuba and xylophone on the banging Chad Hugo-produced “Twilight Speedball,” the epic and orchestral “Life in Marvelous Times” (they’re not) and the humid, hallucinogenic Eastern vibes on the dark narrative “The Embassy.” The back half is all over the place, prone to the sort of detours that seem designed solely to show off Mos’ scope, like the all-Spanish throwaway “No Hay Nada Mas.” Still, when’s he’s on, which is more than not, Mos is refocused and seemingly rededicated.ĪRTIST: SONIC YOUTH ALBUM: THE ETERNAL (MATADOR)Īlmost 30 years and 16 albums into its esteemed career, Sonic Youth is starting to make it look easy. Where “True Magic” was the uncomfortable sound of Mos stretched too thin among his myriad pursuits, “The Ecstatic” is a more focused set with more high moments than Mos has hit since his near-perfect (and never remotely approached) 1999 masterpiece “Black on Both Sides.” The killer first half is filled with off-kilter, dissonant soul hooks and Mos’ hypnotic, just south-of-smoked-out verses, all nicely merging his obsessive drive for hip-hop innovation with a distinct purpose. NEW YORK (Billboard) - Mos Def’s late-2006 release “True Magic” was so quietly whisked out in the dead week between Christmas and New Year’s (without cover art, no less) that rumors circulated that the “real” album was coming sometime later (it wasn’t).
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