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Track Listing 1. Growing Pains 2. Underground For Dummies 3. Civil Obedience 4. Got up This Morning 5. Good Fashion 6. Clickety Clack 7. Midgets & Giants 8. Broccilude 9. High Step 10. Keep Moving 11. Waterline 12. Black Out on White Night 13. Hell of a Year 14. Call Me Francois 15. Hoofprints in the Sand 16. Going Back to Rehab
Album Notes Personnel include: Buddy Wakefield, Jolie Holland (vocals); Nathan Harrop (harmonica); Scott Begin (drums); Reanimator (scratches). The Rhode Island rapper and poet Sage Francis twists and expands the hip-hop format to outstanding artistic effect on his fourth release, which spans his frequently insightful and sometimes particularly moving political, social, and personal concerns. "Civil Obedience" is a plea to step back and take a breath in the face of everyday adversity, while "Broccilude" manages to combine a fine sense of the absurd with a skewering of media inanities. "Black Out on White Night" documents a devastating break-up, the self-explanatory "Going Back to Rehab" is a gruesomely realistic depiction of drug withdrawal, and "Got Up This Morning" is a hilarious tale of attempted seduction set to a Mississippi juke-joint loop.
Industry Reviews 4.5 stars out of 5 -- Longtime compatriots Odd Nosdam and Alias bring boom-bap-inspired beats....Sage Francis erases the line between rap and spoken-word.
Sage's voice cuts through everything with his finely tuned stream-of-consciousness lyrics, giving HUMAN an unusual contrast...
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