WHY? – Sod in the Seed EP
[Anticon, 2012]
Anticon has released a new EP by WHY? – whom we haven’t heard from for a while now.
The title track is of course the brightest of six. It’s a rap about, well, life, from “a minor star”, as the lyrics go:
I make decent cash, I’m a minor star
The main point though is:
I’ll never shirk this first world curse
A steady hurt and a sturdy purse
For Someone is pretty much a beach track, creating reggae waves, followed by the ballad The Plan and an almost soul track Probable Cause. And then Twenty Seven gets even harder to categorize, it’s a simple melodic narration to a simple background. The EP is closed by an almost acapella rap Shag Carpet.
I use the first person ’cause it sounds more urgent
But the truth is I probably knew myself less than you did
I’m so lonesome that I’d let you take me out
If you looked like my ex-girlfriend or Zooey Deschanel
The lyrics vary from geometry and abstract sketches to the stories about… well, you know, the usual – the intricacies of life, “like a yoga yappi.”
WHY? – Sod in the Seed EP
[Anticon, 2012]
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I make decent cash, I’m a minor star
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I’ll never shirk this first world curse
A steady hurt and a sturdy purse
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I use the first person ’cause it sounds more urgent
But the truth is I probably knew myself less than you did
I’m so lonesome that I’d let you take me out
If you looked like my ex-girlfriend or Zooey Deschanel
Ð’ текÑтах – то ÑÐ¿Ð»Ð¾ÑˆÐ½Ð°Ñ Ð³ÐµÐ¾Ð¼ÐµÑ‚Ñ€Ð¸Ñ Ð¸ абÑтракционизм, то иÑтории о… ну о чем Ñто обычно бывает – о непроÑтой жизни, “like a yoga yappi”.