Guante & Big Cats! – An Unwelcome Guest (2009)
Posted by HHB Admin on December 24, 2009 – 12:36 am
BUY IT @ STRANGE FAMOUS RECORDS STORE Producer Big Cats (best known for “Black Out on White Night” from Sage Francis’ Human The Death Dance album) and rapper Guante have created an album that is unapologetically political, unflinchingly descriptive and undeniably ambitious. Never content to settle for rapping-about-rapping clichés, easy, faux-revolutionary pandering or abstract, pseudo-intellectual gibberish, the duo instead have focused on storytelling. While most hip hop stories are confined to one song, the concept album structure gives Guante room to really push the boundaries of hip hop narrative; close listens reveal multiple instances of foreshadowing, recurring motifs, subtle character development, and more. Sure, this is hip hop as high art, but it’s also high art as a love story about zombies, superpowers and post-apocalyptic America. “An Unwelcome Guest” is released by rising indie label, Tru Ruts/Speakeasy Records. – 01 Stories
02 If It Bleeds, It Leads
03 The National Anthem (feat. Haley Bonar)
04 The Stockholm Syndrome (feat. Prolyphic & Big Quarters)
05 Raindrops In A Hurricane
06 No Capes
07 Welcome to the Border (feat. Chastity Brown)
08 With Great Power
09 A Hug From A Stranger
10 Red States
11 Dragons
12 Like The Dead Running
13 Yes, God Is A DJ: No, Not A Good One (feat. Eric Blair)
14 The Damp, Foggy Midnight
15 End Credits –
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