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Sole - Songs That Went Tin [Soleone.org - 2009]

‘Songs That Went Tin’ is a collection of unreleased tracks of sole’s distinctive often political, world cynical & apocalyptic rap craft from between the years 1998 & 2004.

And through the tracks come from across such a large date range this collection certainly has a consistent album feel about it & it’s also some of the most bleak, cynical & negative material I’ve heard from Sole so far. The tracks are mostly built around throbbing greyed or edgy analogue synth lines, doomy low-down piano loops, droned out & gloomy other instrumental loops, slowed & muffled old record samples, dusty & often cold slowed beat patterns, and of courses Sole vein raised & speedy to wordy & world heavy vocal flow.  It feels like rap from after the fall of civilization or on the very edge of it. There’s an impressive list of guest on the twenty tracks on offer here we have: odd nosdam, why? Jel, Alias, Mayonnaise, Sage Francis, Passage, & Jim Jesus.  But for all the talk of it been negative & doomed it’s still fairly sonically varied in it’s feel with Sole as usually throwing in different musical genre curve balls ever-so often into the mix.

So all told a very rewarding & worthy collection of Sole tracks that feels much more album like that expected; with the tone through-out being nicely doomed, cynical & fired-up.

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Roger Batty
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