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FLOBOTS - FIGHT WITH TOOLS (FLOBOTS MUSIC) |
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Flobots offer up a unique take on hip-hop, blending more familiar elements like funk, jazz and world, but also including classically influenced elements. Core melodies are performed by strings and brass while organic feeling percussion provide the hooks. This is totally hip-hop but it's totally something else as well. There's also an indie rock flavor at work here, and the press release isn't lying when it says the band is able to connect with both indie rock fans and devoted hip-hop listeners. Rap stylings mingle well with the non-traditional instrumentation; the music is both intelligent and edgy, and informed by enough grooves to keep the head bobbing. My one quibble is idealogical, I'm afraid. I was a bit soured by the socialist agenda that seems to be part of Flotbots' ideals. Even so, the overall anti-establishment bent of this heady hip-hop group is appealing and something someone like me, who has a problem with authority, can get behind. -- review by Kristofer Upjohn
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