Vinyl Me, Please by Vinyl Me Please

Author:Vinyl Me, Please
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Abrams
Published: 2017-03-15T16:00:00+00:00

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Madvillain

Massive Attack

Joni Mitchell

My Bloody Valentine

Willie Nelson

Neutral Milk Hotel

Joanna Newsom

Nirvana

OutKast

Pavement

Pixies

Portishead

Prince

Queens of the Stone Age

Radiohead

Fela Ransome-Kuti and the Africa ’70 with Ginger Baker

The Replacements

The Rolling Stones

Rush

MADVILLAIN

MADVILLAINY

by Andrew Martin

Neither MF Doom nor Madlib will ever top their collaborative opus, Madvillainy. They don’t need to. Yes, they have other fantastic releases in their respective discographies (particularly the latter under his blunted Quasimoto alter ego), but Madvillainy is without question their best work.

Upon its release in March of 2004, the album received mainstream attention like few (if any) other indie-rap releases before it. The New Yorker and Entertainment Weekly raving about a smoked-out, conceptual hip-hop album from two artists known for wearing masks* and favoring seclusion? Much like J Dilla’s Donuts two years later, Madvillainy appealed to those who may have turned up their noses at rap music of any kind. Sure, it’s weird, experimental, and offers no chorus for you to belt out in your car, but it’s also lyrically dense (“Accordion” and “Figaro,” for starters) and littered with some of the most ridiculous sample flips Madlib has laid to tape.

Beyond critical adoration, the album helped shape the brains of lauded lyricists Danny Brown, Earl Sweatshirt, and Mos Def, the last of whom’s The Ecstatic reeks of Madvillainy’s weed-soaked odor (in the best way possible). For them, it demonstrated that you can find success in bucking trends and following your gut. That is, a gut filled with Heineken and whatever munchies you picked up at the nearby bodega.

Without Madvillainy, it’s hard to say if we’d still be looking to Stones Throw Records for the next big thing to surprise. Or if we would have heard Kanye West rap over a Madlib beat in 2016 (“No More Parties in LA”). One thing’s for certain, if you’re going to listen to this album, be it for the first or the thousandth time, find it on vinyl. Madlib’s penchant for flipping gritty, filthy samples into psychedelic-rap madness deserves it.

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