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Lucy Ford: The Atmosphere EPs
Lucy Ford: The Atmosphere EPs in Bloomington, MN
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The opening track on
Lucy Ford
,
"Between the Lines,"
burrows into the heads of a frustrated policeman, an oblivious young girl who watches movies perpetually to get away from her own life, and an indie rapper who descends into self-abnegation instead of self-aggrandizement -- hardly typical subject matter for a
rap
song. In fact, with
Slug
's singsong delivery, it hardly seems like a
song at all, and is tugged back toward the genre only by
Ant
's steady beat-making. But then
Atmosphere
proves not to be typical in most every respect on this debut full-length, which is much the better for the duo's, and particularly its MC's, peculiarities.
actually collects the bulk of a pair of early
Fat Beats
-distributed vinyl EPs from the Minneapolis-based group on a single long-playing disc. It makes for a sterling introductory display. Like
Eminem
is a joy to hear when caricaturing
old school
trash-talking (
"Guns and Cigarettes,"
with a truly inspired, bluesy
track) and even more so when
is lampooning his own penchant for indulgent egotism (
"It Goes"
) with hilarious, self-deprecating one-liners. At other times, however,
bogs down in a more earnest self-involvement, as on the romance
ballad
"Don't Ever Fucking Question That,"
where the duo reaches for heartfelt with less-than-convincing results.
excels when he allows his obvious passion to settle on subjects outside himself, as when he tries to coax the
hip-hop
community toward a higher calling on
"Tears for Sheep,"
or, more breathtakingly, mixes autobiographical details with flights of pure imagination. The best tracks tend to occur when he plums the psychological depths of complex characters through brainy, abstract, and freewheeling narratives that exist somewhere in a surreal netherworld (
"If I Was Santa Claus,"
"Aspiring Sociopath,"
"Party for the Fight to Write,"
"The Woman with the Tattooed Hands,"
the aforementioned
"Between the Lines"
). On these songs, the duo approaches dazzling heights that
could never approach. Despite its few flaws, including a bit of merely serviceable filler,
offered one of the freshest voices in
in 2000; in fact, its stronger moments are among the most forward-thinking
ever made. ~ Stanton Swihart
Lucy Ford
,
"Between the Lines,"
burrows into the heads of a frustrated policeman, an oblivious young girl who watches movies perpetually to get away from her own life, and an indie rapper who descends into self-abnegation instead of self-aggrandizement -- hardly typical subject matter for a
rap
song. In fact, with
Slug
's singsong delivery, it hardly seems like a
song at all, and is tugged back toward the genre only by
Ant
's steady beat-making. But then
Atmosphere
proves not to be typical in most every respect on this debut full-length, which is much the better for the duo's, and particularly its MC's, peculiarities.
actually collects the bulk of a pair of early
Fat Beats
-distributed vinyl EPs from the Minneapolis-based group on a single long-playing disc. It makes for a sterling introductory display. Like
Eminem
is a joy to hear when caricaturing
old school
trash-talking (
"Guns and Cigarettes,"
with a truly inspired, bluesy
track) and even more so when
is lampooning his own penchant for indulgent egotism (
"It Goes"
) with hilarious, self-deprecating one-liners. At other times, however,
bogs down in a more earnest self-involvement, as on the romance
ballad
"Don't Ever Fucking Question That,"
where the duo reaches for heartfelt with less-than-convincing results.
excels when he allows his obvious passion to settle on subjects outside himself, as when he tries to coax the
hip-hop
community toward a higher calling on
"Tears for Sheep,"
or, more breathtakingly, mixes autobiographical details with flights of pure imagination. The best tracks tend to occur when he plums the psychological depths of complex characters through brainy, abstract, and freewheeling narratives that exist somewhere in a surreal netherworld (
"If I Was Santa Claus,"
"Aspiring Sociopath,"
"Party for the Fight to Write,"
"The Woman with the Tattooed Hands,"
the aforementioned
"Between the Lines"
). On these songs, the duo approaches dazzling heights that
could never approach. Despite its few flaws, including a bit of merely serviceable filler,
offered one of the freshest voices in
in 2000; in fact, its stronger moments are among the most forward-thinking
ever made. ~ Stanton Swihart
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