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輸入 |
パッケージ仕様 |
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発売日 |
2018年04月27日 |
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規格品番 |
MMG001071 |
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SKU |
814867025904 |
構成数 | 2枚
合計収録時間 | 00:00:00
On Everything's Fine, rappers Jean Grae and Quelle Chris reflect on what it takes to stay normal and sane while dealing with intense personal issues and living in an increasingly corrupt, crazy world that constantly seems on the brink of destruction. Despite how wrong everything seems to be, the average person will typically respond to a casual greeting and query of "How's it going?" with something positive and safe rather than be honest and detail all the things that are going wrong. The darkly humorous album sarcastically riffs on this sense of false, cliched optimism, as well as stereotypes, the whitewashing of hip-hop (and popular culture in general), and the general sense of anxiety surrounding day-to-day existence. Right from the outset, the album is filled with dense, complex vocal arrangements, with both MCs (as well as their guests) delivering dozens of vicious caricatures of fake rappers and "woke" folks. The couple, who announced their engagement a few months prior to the album's release, have vastly different styles -- Grae, who also moonlights as an actress and comedian, is sharper and more dramatic, while Chris has more of a loose, conversational style and can sometimes be described as a stoner rapper -- but they complement each other well, and both drive the album's concept. Musically, some of the tracks sound like the type of sludgy, lo-fi boom-bap Chris is known for, but they branch off into several other directions, such as the smudged P-Funk vibe of "House Call," the spacy, late-night jazz groove of "Gold Purple Orange," and the grinding industrial drone of "Scoop of Dirt." In addition to guest appearances by underground rappers such as Your Old Droog and Denmark Vessey, several comedians also contribute. The brilliant John Hodgman wearily, reluctantly offers words of encouragement on the Negativland-like interlude "Don't Worry It's Fine," while Nick Offerman cheerfully encourages you to disregard anything that doesn't directly affect you during "Everything's Still Fine." On "OhSh," Hannibal Buress shows up to deliver a numbskulled rap satire while a barrage of samples of the word "shit" fly by at a rapid pace, and it's impossible to imagine everyone involved not cracking up in the studio. The album ends with two of its most cautiously optimistic tracks, the more uplifting "Waiting for the Moon" and the ethereal yet hard "River," which seem to resolve that things are, in fact, quite OK, but you still need to watch out and fight for yourself. ~ Paul Simpson
02 My Contribution To This Scam
03 OhSh (feat. Hannibal Buress)
04 House Call (feat. Big Tone, Anna Wise, & Jonathan Hoard)
05 Don't Worry It's Fine (feat. John Hodgman & Michael Che)
06 Gold Purple Orange
07 Peacock
08 Doing Better Than Ever (feat. Ashok "Dap" Kondabolu)
09 The Smoking Man (feat. Denmark Vessey)
10 Breakfast of Champions
11 Scoop of Dirt (feat. Your Old Droog)
12 Zero
13 Everything's Still Fine (feat. Nick Offerman)
14 Waiting For The Moon (feat. Mosel & Anna Wise)
15 River (feat. Anna Wise)
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近年たびたび共演を重ねてきたジーン・グレイとクエール・クリスによるコラボ作。シニカルなタイトルとジャケットからも窺える通り、人種問題を扱った"Breakfast Of Champions"を筆頭に全編シリアスな内容。Pファンクのオマージュ"House Call"、ジャジーな"Grand Purple Orange"、インダストリアル調の"Scoop Of Dirt"など、メッセージに応じて多彩で重厚なサウンドを繰り出すクエールの手腕が光る。
bounce (C)高橋芳朗タワーレコード (vol.416(2018年6月25日発行号)掲載)
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