My Album Of The Week for the week of July 1st-7th, 2013:
Dessa - Parts Of Speech
I've been a Doomtree fan for quite some time. They've been a tried and true source of great music for years. However, going back to 2008's self-titled album Doomtree something changed. That album felt very much like a clearing of the decks for something else.
Well, in 2009 P.O.S. released Never Better, in my opinion the first Doomtree album that genuinely required repeated listens to really grasp. Since that album the group has ventured further and further down the path with Dessa's A Badly Broken Code, Lazerbeak's Legend Recognize Legend & Lava Bangers, Paper Tiger's Made Like Us, & Sims' Bad Time Zoo each demands your full attention and repeated spins to genuinely resonate.
(No offense to Mike Mictlan & his free Snaxxx album, which is a fine album and has some real high points. It's just not an album that reveals much more depth upon repeated listens. As the Doomtree member who's raps typically rely the most heavily on immediacy, it makes sense that his album would feel the same.)
Anyway, all of this is just a long way of saying that I'll be spending the next week listening to Parts Of Speech first thing in the morning. If I were a betting man I'd bet that the last listen will be better than the first.
