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The WireFrankly, the guy defies you not to be impressed by what he's got. [#234, p.53]
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Cex's production style favors an air of deep melancholy and foreboding, similar to the style of the Anticon Collective.
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UrbThe camp is still there, only now there's a newfound confidence (not to mention skill level) that make this one a winner. [Aug 2003, p.90]
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Cex played with Mogwai last year, and the experience seems to have had a profound effect on him. The best moments of the late nineties Scottish post-rock explosion seem apparent here, and there are even hints at prime Arab Strap, which is of course quite brilliant.
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Alternative PressBoasts the accessibility and ambition of a true star. [Jul 2003, p.124]
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It would have been nice if Kidwell had stuck to his white-schlep soul man routine throughout, instead of gesturing back to earlier electronic or acoustic-based instrumental work.
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There are so many types of music he's experimenting with on this album, not even from track to track but within each song.
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BlenderHe orchestrates IDM glitch, acoustic guitars, strings, hip-hop beats, witty rhymes and emo candor with casual, genre-blending assurance. [#17, p.133]
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An odd, compelling hybrid of snappy drum loops, digital atmospherics and indie-rock woodshedding.
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Musically, its far and away ahead of most hip-hop artists, and lyrically, its a clever approach that goes beyond the heart-on-your-sleeve indie-rock lyricsheet.
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It's not always pretty, but even the mistakes have a remarkable charm.
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If Tall Dark and Handcuffed was Cex's Slim Shady LP then Being Ridden is most-assuredly his Marshall Mathers LP -- the point at which the protagonistic and absurd becomes personal and nihilistic.
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An ambitious, sometimes awkward mish-mash of soul-baring, ego-blaring, and everything in-between.
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Being Ridden is not a great album, because these kinds rarely are. Kidwells vision is born of confusion and disarray, so its only natural that his art would follow suit.
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MojoCex moves slightly away from his former snot and swagger towards more humble inflection. [Jun 2003, p.108]
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RickyVJun 7, 2003