Human The Death Dance

Performer: Sage Francis
Artist: Jolie Holland
Producer: Mr Cooper; Big Cats!; Kurtis SP; Alias; Odd Nosdam; Reanimator; Buck 65; Miles Bonny; ANT; Sixtoo
Distributor: Alternative Dis. Alliance

Notes: Personnel: Buddy Wakefield, Jolie Holland (vocals); Nathan Harrop (harmonica); Scott Begin (drums); Reanimator (scratches). The Rhode Island rapper and poet Sage Francis twists and expands the hip-hop format to outstanding artistic effect on his fourth release, which spans his frequently insightful and sometimes particularly moving political, social, and personal concerns. "Civil Obedience" is a plea to step back and take a breath in the face of everyday adversity, while "Broccilude" manages to combine a fine sense of the absurd with a skewering of media inanities. "Black Out on White Night" documents a devastating break-up, the self-explanatory "Going Back to Rehab" is a gruesomely realistic depiction of drug withdrawal, and "Got Up This Morning" is a hilarious tale of attempted seduction set to a Mississippi juke-joint loop.

Alternative Press (p.160) - 4.5 stars out of 5 -- "Longtime compatriots Odd Nosdam and Alias bring boom-bap-inspired beats....Sage Francis erases the line between rap and spoken-word." CMJ (p.42) - "Sage's voice cuts through everything with his finely tuned stream-of-consciousness lyrics, giving HUMAN an unusual contrast..."

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