The Minnesota freestyle virtuoso Eyedea, well known for his stint with Minneapolis rap group Atmosphere and current ongoing collab with DJ Abilities, released an album last year that sounds like, well, both the worst and best indie rock has had to offer in the shoegaze scene for the last half decade. And I will be honest, it's mostly the worst.
Now this is old news to those who've been paying attention, but I've been under a rock or in Canada or something for the past year or so, salivating over BackBurner and the Motherboard collective (both of which are cranking out some incredibly ill hyphy right now). Somehow what Eyedea was doing after his departure went without my noticing.
So I was understandibly uncertain what to think of a traditional-sounding indie band with Eydea at the helm. This is what it sounds like:
It's basically nothing amazing, but as a band I guess they could hold their own. The dude is much better when he's in his element, I say.
Some technical difficulties with the sound files. I'll keep working on it, I'm rusty.
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