My Album Of The Week for the week of April 14th-20th, 2014:
Edison - No Three Men Make A Tiger
01. Init.
02. If You're Going To Say Nothing, Say Yo A Few Times First
03. A Fortune Gone To Hashed Kids
04. I Don't Know Tim, I'm Not The Loudest Guy At The Fuck You Contest
05. Reporting Live From The Wellspring Of Opinions And Lost Buttons
06. The True Story Of Baron Vonfeedreader (w/Shannon Harney)
07. Think Occasionally Of The Uploading, Of Which You Spare Yourself The Sight
08. All The Starving Artists, Eating Their Own Hands
09. Waiting In Line To Meet Steve At The Crossroads, At Midnight
10. Make Noise Not Marketing
11. Pander Junkies
12. Don't Tell Us What We're Doing, We Don't Want To Know
13. The Disgusted Briefcase (w/Babel Fishh)
14. Alexander The Great Genre Switching Soulsuck
15. Eye Teeth And Egos
If you've been following the blog for a while you should already be pretty familiar with Edison. I've written about him several times here and played him several times on the Flatbasset Radio podcast. I wrote about his last album, No Sun No Food, last July when it was also an Album Of The Week. The album was so great that it eventually took the crows as my most played album of 2013.
If you haven't been following along, here's the bullet points. Edison is a beatmaker out of the Bay Area. Up until No Sun No Food he was known for making beats that were dense, manic, and yet still melodic. He switched up the game last year on No Sun No Food, making an exquisitely laid back album that was still clearly the work of the same artists.
So here we have No Three Men Make A Tiger. I've only listened to it a couple of times, but I think it's safe to say that this is a middle ground between his manic earlier work and his new found sense of pacing. It's a much harder, busier album than No Sun No Food, yet it no longer feels quite as busy. Where his early albums felt like you were riding around in a taxi who's driver was mixing adderall & vodka, No Three Men Make A Tiger is a great strolling record. No Sun No Food was a great strolling album as well, but that album felt like a summer stroll through the park. No Three Men... has a darker edge to it. Like strolling through that same park at 3 AM as a storm's blowing in to town. Obviously I highly recommend it.
If you'd like to check it out it's available as a "Name Your Price" download on Edison's Bandcamp page. Seriously, pick it up. Pick up No Sun No Food while you're at it. And then, once you've grabbed those, follow this link to 900 Bats and pick up the Free Willy beat tape. Then you'll be set for summer.
