CD REVIEW: FACE CANDY, THIS IS WHERE WE WERE
Jan 22, 2007 3:41 PM, By Max Herman
Few MCs realize the power of improvisation like freestyle champion Eyedea, whose latest project, Face Candy, is all about the art of ad-libbing. On the collective's live debut, Eyedea, Carnage and Abzorbr let loose over the sparse free jazz of drummer J.T. Bates and bassist Casey O'Brien. These aren't battle raps, though. A handful of the tracks (for example, "Buzz Kill") sound more like whiny spoken word than hip-hop. But on "Braille," Face Candy encompasses the essence of freestyling by responding to being asked to keep the volume low with some smoothed-out rhymes and funky bass licks.
For more information about Face Candy, visit www.myspace.com/facecandy or www.rhymesayers.com.
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