SEPTEMBER 2008
VOL 19.03
RESTIFORM BODIES
TV Loves You Back
(Anticon)
With all due respect to Kool Keith and Cannibal Ox, Restiform Bodies are one of the weirdest, oddball hip-hop groups on the map. Consider song titles like “A Pimp-Like God” and disturbing lines like “My dick gets busy like a busy bayonet” on “Foul” from the group’s new album, TV Loves You Back, and you start to get a picture of the outfit’s experimental, nothing’s-sacred approach. Icy noises and acid-tinged synths — think Diplo on mescaline and given Brian Eno’s laptop — all dovetail with the complicated, ultra-dense rhyme schemes and super-rapid-fire delivery. All we can conclude is that Restiform Bodies is spitting on ghettotech and its offspring and coming up with their own dark, abstract vision of blistering post-crunk.
Grade: B+
MATTHEW TAPIA
Source: Mean Street Magazine
