CD REVIEW: PETE MISER, CAMOUFLAGE IS RELATIVE

Jan 18, 2005 7:52 PM Bill Murphy (Writer)

Not just a microphone fiend
Oregon-born and Crooklyn-based Pete Miser cops a streetwise but mellow, almost matter-of-fact, rhyme style—the perfect foil for the heaviness of the topic at hand, whether it’s busted love (on the scathing homily “Final”), politics (“Old News,” with Dionysos and Stimulus) or borough tales (“The Fall of Williamsburg”). That said, his real secret weapons lie in his turntable chops, production skills and an uncanny ability to recruit great talent, as the soon-to-be-classic jam “All I Do” (with soul siren Maya Azucena—someone to watch for in 2005) reveal with a quickness.

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