Sunday, June 5, 2005

THE NAME IS LYRICS BORN, BABY AND I TRULY MEAN IT: I've proselytized previously in these pages about Bay Area hip-hop phenom Lyrics Born, aka Tom Shimura. Perhaps you believed the hype and bought the record 18 months ago, but perhaps not. If not, providence now presents the opportunity to amend the error of your ways, so please try again!

I just picked up the most recent Lyrics Born disk, "Same !@#$ Different Day", and it could hardly be making me happier. It's brilliant, beautiful and not the same shit at all despite containing fistfulls of completely worthy remixes of the material on LB's 2003 effort, "Later That Day". If you just wanted a little taste, to make sure before jumping in for the price of a CD, you can get it here. (Up to the minute info, here.) Or for that matter, just download the original version of "Stop Complaining" from your favorite electronic media vendor. A dollar well spent, I promise.

But fortunately, you don't have to take the word of a recreationally caustic pseudonymous blogger for the quality of these recordings, since New York Magazine Film Critic and NPR Media Assassin Ken Tucker is all over 'em too.

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