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"Man, I'm old"

​A shrapnel bomb of ill-angled words and sputtering electronic bloops, Beans has been the most visible member of longstanding NYC avant-rap crew Antipop Consortium. He says his confessional 2007 album Thorns was "draining emotionally" and once figured to be his last. But his fourth album, End It All (due February 15), is a collection of firsts -- his debut for avant-rap homebase Anticon, and his maiden attempt at collaborating exclusively with outside producers, a move that also makes the album his most diverse to date. The guest list is long (Four Tet, Tortoise rhythm crew Bumps, Black Moth Super Rainbow's Tobacco, IDM seizure specialist Clark), which creates a wild and eclectic ride through skittering beats, lush Dillawave, rattling glitch, and one lurching punk-swing banger featuring TV on the Radio's Tunde Adebimpe. First taste "Deathsweater" is a click-clacking track that comes courtesy of Los Angeles producer Nobody, sounding like a demented, sproinging version of the Al Green "I'm Glad Your Mine" break (cf., Eric B. and Rakim's "Mahogany" and East Flatbush Project's "Tried by 12"). Beans motormouths in his usually daunting style -- "guard your grill and take a chill pill, daffodil" -- while Nobody stays equally as busy. Says Beans himself, "I really like the album! It's the best one until the next one!"

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