Market the album as you wish, but Bad as Me doesn’t stand as Tom Waits’ first attempt at compartmentalization Swordfishtrombones (1983), the first album informed by Kathleen Brennan, was marginally leaner by comparison. In his interview with Pitchfork, Waits commented on how his wife Kathleen Brennan “wanted to do 12 three-minute songs,” adding that he has becoming more “economical” in his songwriting process. This is evident from the onset of “Chicago” from there, Bad as Me churns forward with a wider scope than we might have expected. Tom Waits is a masterful conductor always on the right track. Blackhearted misanthropy never sounded so fun. While not an obvious comparison, there’s a hint of Robert Pollard in Rønnenfelt, a determination to slice the flab and leave only the finest cuts intact – the title track is a mere 106 seconds when it could be three times the length and still as glorious. It goes some way to explain the chokingly thick atmosphere, the smouldering remains as they adopt a scorched earth policy. “Wounded Hearts” especially clearly shows that lead singer Elias Bender Rønnenfelt has been burnt since New Brigade dropped a couple of years back, and so his natural reaction is to torch everything around him. For a record that doubts our morals, proclaims our worthlessness and rattles against the futility of basic affection, it seems wholly content with allowing us to at least chant along in unison, following in lockstep (lol fascism) as they trudge forward to the militaristic snares. In more ways than one too – You’re Nothing is one of the most hook-happy albums to emerge from this field in yonks, proudly displaying a silver lining of pop in amongst the immensely stormy clouds.
A 28 minute package of pure visceral thrills, on their sophomore effort the Danish young guns spat bile, sneered, jabbed and got under your skin. I genuinely think this album has an abstract and unique style – the reasons I became a Mos Def in the beginning.You’re Nothing hit like a bolt from the blue at the beginning of a lacklustre 2013 release calendar, and while things picked up, few other records this year can go toe-to-toe with it still. The Ecstatic is definitely something for Mos Def fans and hip hop fans all over the world to enjoy. brilliant and the flow matched perfectly. I liked how the end of “History” had Mos Def rapping onto my favorite track on the CD, “Casa Bey.” That was just. The combination of Talib Kweli and Mos Def flowing over a J.dilla beat already lets you know this is going to be a hot track. “History” featuring Talib Kweli (the duo together makes up Black Star) was a track produced by the late great J.
That just put a smile on my face and immediately made me realize that damn, this is a great CD. The best line in the whole entire album is when Mos says “And we are alive in amazing times delicate hearts, diabolical minds - revelations, hatred, love and war.”. “Life in Marvelous Times” is a trip down memory lane describing Mos Def's journey from Bedford-Stuyvesant to where he is now. “Quiet Dog,” a song strictly made for the mean streets in Brooklyn, has a nice percussion beat and reminds us Mos Def doesn’t only come with smooth and jazzy lyrics, but can be aggressive. The beats are sick and get your head bouncing while enjoying Mos’s flow. I felt this album lived up to Mos Def’s image. Wow! Mos Def is back on the music scene! After two not so critically acclaimed CD’s, Mos Def brings a lot of heat with this album.
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