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Jul 8, 2015This new LP is understated by comparison, with fewer jarring moments and more shifting grooves.
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Jul 7, 2015Fingers, Bank Pads & Shoe Prints is a nice reminder that footwork's version of classic rock still overflows with bizarre juxtapositions and high-wire pileups.
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MojoJul 6, 2015This "new" RP Boo set feels like a deeper, warmer work. [Aug 2015, p.98]
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Jul 6, 2015These tracks don’t bear the outward signs of mourning of Rashad’s release, but at their heart there’s a sort of solitude that only occasionally makes its way onto the dance floor.
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Jul 1, 2015[Fingers is] fifteen tricksy, itchy, endlessly inventive footwork belters, which do little more than uphold the finest tenets of the genre, and are perfectly laudable for that.
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Jul 1, 2015Typical of a producer who makes music for battling, there’s more swagger than a pair of John Wayne’s chaps.
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Jul 27, 2015Fingers, Bank Pads & Shoe Prints is another thrilling, occasionally confounding collection that demonstrates why RP Boo is one of Chicago's most unique, innovative producers.
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Jul 2, 2015It’s a dedicated focus on the materials that compel bodies and minds into motion that make RP Boo a continuously shining light in the ever-growing discourse he helped invent.
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Jul 1, 2015Across its 14 tracks, Fingers, Bank Pads & Shoe Prints twitches with endless inventiveness and energy, finding Boo tinkering with vocal snatches as frequently as he skews the beats into ever-more queasily unusual formations, drawing from soul, soundtracks and classic dance music along the way.
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Jul 1, 2015Fingers, Bank Pads, and Shoe Prints is a much harsher, more trying listen, but well worth the effort, at least as a frame of reference.