Name: Perfect Hair
Brand: Busdriver

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

bdcd248

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Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2014-09-08

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

PIAS

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

5021392924229

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Total Cap

1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Busdriver

Genre GB

Hip Hop

Label GB

Big Dada

What would 'Gravity's Rainbow' sound like as a rap album? Here is an album which, if we may, reminds the listener of their whispered allegiances to fundamental realities. The brushstrokes are delicate, stabbing, pointed. The overwhelming crescendo they whirl towards may be one of bitterness, and rightfully so. There is also lightness. A black man is giggling and pointing at you. It may have everything and nothing to do with rap and one's place in it. Humiliation, no longer a threat—but a reality, has been exhausted. Perfect Hair is what remains. The album vibrates, oscillating between journalistic extremes du jour, occupying a space few have let rap extend to. It is neither cheerful nor depressing, beyond those qualifiers. The rapper, having moved past the limited authority of rejection or ostracization, has arrived at a truth. A Whole Sick Crew of characters weave their way across the shifting stage. Aesop Rock, Danny Brown, Open Mike Eagle and Pegasus Warning all spit directly earwards. Additional production by Jeremiah Jae, Mono/Poly and many more. Album artwork is brought to you by the legendary and talented John Lurie. The listener has been trained. The listener has developed a palate for the baroque, the garish, the cruel and bloody. The listener has become accustomed to being guided not by ear but belly. Here is an album with the referential delicacy of a snowflake, and the nourishing qualities of that little drop of frozen water. It's ending leaves the listener at a loss, stupefied by the risk taken. And at that moment of recognition, it seems to blink itself out of existence. The loss is yours. And that loss is the motivating factor for what exists on this album beneath thick layers of discarded dreadlocks: a truth. That humiliating losses, communicated unflinchingly, lead one to an insatiable, bubbling hunger: to expand one's space, to grow. The refreshing, restorative value of an a posteriori vantage is reaffirmed - experience being the most vivacious source of wisdom and creation. There is an ineffable cool present coaxing your attention and rewarding your insights. On 'Perfect Hair,' Busdriver defies the betted ante. The pieces, parts, sinews, synapses, synopses, passions, thrusts, and bits burst outward and realign of their own tremendous gravity. It is on this album that an OG announces his presence.CD - Digipack with clear tray. Rollfold booklet lyric sheet. CD features secret track 'Bone Structure'. LP - 2LP on 180 gram vinyl includes digital download code, 12" square insert lyric sheet and blue paper inners. 'Octagon' and 'How Your Sprinkler System Work' (ft Del The Funky Homosapien) are vinyl only tracks.

Perfect Hair

Music GB