My first time contributing to the City Paper’s music blog “Noise”. I’ve been polite about it by not complaining before, but really, I wish they’d get my last name right. Either way, this is a really cool and weird record, whatever your opinions on MAD DECENT are, you should check it out.
“Blaq Starr’s dead-set on respectfully wrecking his hometown genre’s trappings, but late 2008’s cloying cover of The Wire theme (featuring M.I.A) and “Bang Hard,” an affecting slow burner that, nonetheless, was on some “fame’s gettin’ to me” business, felt calculated weird–not Blaq Starr weird. “Get Off,” a new single released through Mad Decent–on pink vinyl no less–stretches club’s limits by not trying so hard…”
You can check out “Get Off” at Blaqstarr’s MySpace and on imeem too.
