Easy Listening 4 Armageddon

Easy Listening 4 Armageddon
Studio album by Mike Ladd
Released June 10, 1997 (1997-06-10)
Genre Hip hop
Length 51:03
Label Scratchie Records
Producer Mike Ladd, Dennis Kelley
Mike Ladd chronology
Easy Listening 4 Armageddon
(1997)
Welcome to the Afterfuture
(2000)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Chicago Tribune[2]
JazzTimesfavorable[3]

Easy Listening 4 Armageddon is the first studio album by American hip hop musician Mike Ladd. It was released on Scratchie Records in 1997.

Reception

Tony Green of JazzTimes gave the album a favorable review, saying: "Ignoring the all too common impulse to pile texture on top of texture, Ladd constructs 12 tracks that cajole as effectively as his richly imagistic poetry."[3] Dan LeRoy of AllMusic commented that "through a series of lo-fi beats and loops that make stunning use of a few choice samples, Ladd creates an eerie soundscape that perfectly matches his muttered musings."[1]

Greg Kot of Chicago Tribune called it "one of the most accomplished hip-hop debuts in recent years."[2]

Track listing

No. Title Length
1. "Libations"   0:28
2. "The Tragic Mulatto Is Neither"   4:18
3. "Kissin' Kecia"   4:11
4. "Bush League Junkie"   3:23
5. "Padded Walls"   4:58
6. "Back Stroke"   3:06
7. "Blade Runner"   7:17
8. "Maniac"   2:47
9. "I'm Building a Bodacious Bodega for the Race War"   5:08
10. "Off the Coast of Okrakoke"   5:28
11. "Easy Listening for Armageddon"   4:48
12. "The Post Apocalypse Arkestra"   5:11

References

  1. 1 2 LeRoy, Den. "Mike Ladd - Easy Listening 4 Armageddon". AllMusic. Retrieved April 1, 2015.
  2. 1 2 Kot, Greg (October 31, 1997). "Mike Ladd Easy Listening for Armageddon". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved April 1, 2015.
  3. 1 2 Green, Tony (February 1998). "Mike Ladd - Easy Listening for Armageddon". JazzTimes. Retrieved April 1, 2015.

External links

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Sunday, January 03, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.