Prefuse 73 - Surrounded By Silence

Label:

Warp Records

Catalog#:

WARPCD129

Format:

Country:

Released:

21 Mar 2005

Genre:

Electronic, Hip Hop

Style:

Breakbeat, IDM, Hip Hop

Tracklist

1	I've Said All I Need To Say About Them Intro	3:32	X
2	Hide Ya Face	3:14	X
	Rap [Featuring] - El-P , Ghostface Killah
3	Bad Memory Interlude One	0:41	X
4	Ty Versus Detchibe	3:22	X
	Featuring - Tyondai Braxton
5	Expressing Views Is Obviously Illegal	3:41	X
6	Pastel Assassins	4:26	X
	Vocals - Alejandra Deheza , Claudia Deheza
7	Pagina Dos	2:29	X
	Featuring - Books, The
8	Silencio Interlude	0:56
9	Now You're Leaving	2:38	X
	Rap [Featuring] - Camu Tao
10	Gratis (Prefuse VS Pedro)	4:52	X
11	We Go Our Own Way	3:19
	Vocals - Kazu Makino
12	Mantra Two	1:06	X
	Featuring - Tyondai Braxton
13	Sabbatical With Options	2:45	X
	Rap [Featuring] - Aesop Rock Written-By - Richard Tucker , Scott Herren
14	It's Crowded	4:53	X
	Vocals - Claudia Deheza
15	Just The Thought	3:38	X
	Rap [Featuring] - GZA , Masta Killa
16	La Correcion Exchange	4:15	X
	Featuring - DJ Nobody*
17	Hide Ya Face (Reminder Version)	1:35	X
18	Morale Crusher	1:14	X
	Rap [Featuring] - Beans
19	Minutes Away Without You	3:48	X
20	Rain Edit Interlude	1:36	X
	Written-By - Linda Perhacs , Scott Herren
21	And I'm Gone (Prefuse VS Piano Overlord VS Broadcast VS Cafe Tacuba)	2:55	X
	Vocals - Trish Keenan Written-By - Cafe Tacuba , Scott Herren , Trish Keenan

Credits

Artwork By [Assistant] - Jennipa Solo Han
Artwork By [Direction] - Estro , Gracia Villamil , Guillermo Scott Herren
Artwork By [Layout] - GH Avisualagency
Executive Producer, Other [Therapist, Compression Specialist & Consulate Destroyer] - Elvin Estella
Photography - Gracia Villamil
Written-By, Producer, Performer - Prefuse 73

Notes

Notes from the sleeve:

Track 13 contains a sample of the recording "Are You Leaving For The Country" as performed by Karren Dalton.
Track 20 contains a sample of Linda Perhacs 'Chimacum Rain' taken from the album 'Parrallelograms'.
Track 21 contains a sample of Cafe Tacuba 'Hola Adios' taken from the album 'Cuatro Caminos'.

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Rated 3/5

Review by scoundrel Mar 17, 2006 (edited over 3 years ago)

On SURROUNDED BY SILENCE, Prefuse 73 takes a much more aggressive approach to hip-hop than on his earlier album. Certainly, vocalists have a more expanded role. Though the sound is much thicker -- listen to the layers of hiss on "Ty Versus Detchibe" or the multitude of instruments on "Expressing Views is Obviously Illegal" -- not all the lyricists, especially cliche boastful ones like on "Hide Ya Face," helps his cause much. (On the other hand, the vocal-less version of "Hide Ya Face" sounds like it could have come from Herren's Savath & Savalas project.) The female vocalists on "Pastel Assassins" adds a note of calm in an otherwise busy track. Kazu Makino (from 4AD's Blonde Redhead) offer her ineffably sad vocals to "We Got Our Own Way." And the banjo twang on "Pagina Dos" is impossible to ignore, as are the mournful horns on "Gratis." "Minutes Away Without You" carries in the emotion. The final track, "And I'm Gone" is wonderfully dense, almost chaotic, but it suits the album well. Surronded by silence? Not likely.