Most of the production on Qwel and Meaty Ogre’s latest, Freezer Burner. is incredible. Meaty Ogre channels T-Ray, Troubleneck, and Diamond, sometimes all at once (not possible? See “I Forgive Em”, where the drums are covered in decades of dust like T-Ray’s, the guitar loop twangs eerie like Diamond, and the synergy of whole thing is [cont.]

   Yeah, this is late, but early-January reviews are meant for mea culpa records - albums that certain people should have gotten around to reviewing - but never did. There were early criticisms of Soft Money when it first dropped: “not experimental enough” (!) said the alternative media, “too weird” (!!) said the predictable hip hop press. That kind [cont.]

   Of course, the key question is how this record ended up on Anticon in the first place. The label’s most “standard” hip-hop release to this point might just be Deep Puddle’s The Taste of Rain…Why Kneel. You remember that record? Dose One rapped about being a candle, while Slug rapped about being a candle, [cont.]