Cappablack
Façades & Skeletons
~scape 2006

01. Counterattack Intro
02. Slide Around [ft. Awol One]
03. New Tone [ft. Emirp]
04. Evil Clap
05. Hear No Speak No [ft. Awol One]
06. Components & Variables
07. City of Amnesia
08. 5th Dimension (Anti-Imperialism Disco)
09. Them in Us [Interlude]
10. Akarui-Mirai [ft. Emirp]
11. Harder to Unravel
12. Tokatonton [ft. Emirp]
13. Suikinkutsu 09.12.2003

Let's face it: we don't know shit about Japan - Japan knows shitloads about the rest of us. I don't mean to be smartass around here or too overbearing, but when they're good, they're shockingly so with what they do, and hip-hop-wise they even got some tradition. If Flying Lotus wasn't proof enough, leave it to iLLEVEN & Hashim B., 'cause they know it so well and don't need all that "zen" weirdo Japanese slang/symbolism to win you either. I mean, they grew up with Mobb Deep but end up sounding a zillion things more, and they quite simply explain it with notions like "façades" and "skeletons" as if they'd hold some super-secret unknown to man:

The album title reflects the complex mosaic-like recording process of Cappablack, which is akin to intricate architectural structures. They build skeletons of tracks and develop them into songs that often end up being completely different from what the duo themselves expected, in the same way that the "façade" of a building looks completely different from the internal structure.

Okaay, that being the 'coolest' aspect to their music, who do we have to hang for not thinking of it before? More so, if making new hip-hop music can sound this fun, why the hell doesn't everyone do it? Façades & Skeletons was released today and I have to say it's very much my favourite hip-hop album in a while.

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Arigatos to Derarosa.