Czarface & MF Doom – Czarface Meets Metal Face (Vinyl)
The undergroup hip-hop group Czarface – made up of Wu-Tang Clan member Inspectah Deck, MC Esoteric and producer 7L – get more super still, with the addition of metal-masked rapper MF Doom.
This Avengers-style squad, already nerdily fixated on comic books and prone to supervillainous pronouncements regarding their prowess – be it lyrical, sexual or pharmaceutical – are given very free rein, and there are some ponderous skits for guys to giggle at alone with their vinyl figurines.
But when the MCs are actually on the mic, backed by 7L’s super-rugged boom bap production, there is much to love. Esoteric’s free association on Captain Crunch, imagining “a group text with Steely Dan, Groot, Baby Groot, the ghost of Dave Brubeck, Alex Trebek and Boba Fett” is brilliant, and a weirdly neat summation of the group’s fixations; Doom, his distinctive blocked-nose burr always welcome, matches him for stoner surrealism with “barf krill on masses and rose-gold pavilions”.
Inspectah Deck is typically sturdy and scornful, withering foes with barely a lift in intonation: “Blog about it, naysayer”, “Stared death in the face, left him with a sore neck”.
Tracklist:
A1 Take Your Medicine
A2 Meddle With Metal
A3 Badness Of Madness
A4 Close Talker
A5 Forever People
A6 Captain Crunch
A7 Don't Spoil It
A8 Phantoms
B1 Bomb Thrown
B2 You Masked For It
B3 Astral Traveling
B4 Nautical Depth
B5 Stun Gun
B6 MF Czar
B7 Captain Brunch
B8 Sleeping Dogs
The undergroup hip-hop group Czarface – made up of Wu-Tang Clan member Inspectah Deck, MC Esoteric and producer 7L – get more super still, with the addition of metal-masked rapper MF Doom.
This Avengers-style squad, already nerdily fixated on comic books and prone to supervillainous pronouncements regarding their prowess – be it lyrical, sexual or pharmaceutical – are given very free rein, and there are some ponderous skits for guys to giggle at alone with their vinyl figurines.
But when the MCs are actually on the mic, backed by 7L’s super-rugged boom bap production, there is much to love. Esoteric’s free association on Captain Crunch, imagining “a group text with Steely Dan, Groot, Baby Groot, the ghost of Dave Brubeck, Alex Trebek and Boba Fett” is brilliant, and a weirdly neat summation of the group’s fixations; Doom, his distinctive blocked-nose burr always welcome, matches him for stoner surrealism with “barf krill on masses and rose-gold pavilions”.
Inspectah Deck is typically sturdy and scornful, withering foes with barely a lift in intonation: “Blog about it, naysayer”, “Stared death in the face, left him with a sore neck”.
Tracklist:
A1 Take Your Medicine
A2 Meddle With Metal
A3 Badness Of Madness
A4 Close Talker
A5 Forever People
A6 Captain Crunch
A7 Don't Spoil It
A8 Phantoms
B1 Bomb Thrown
B2 You Masked For It
B3 Astral Traveling
B4 Nautical Depth
B5 Stun Gun
B6 MF Czar
B7 Captain Brunch
B8 Sleeping Dogs
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