MILO A Toothpaste Summer LP NEW VINYL Fake Four Busdriver Open Mike Eagle igloo
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Store Categories HIP HOP FUNK / SOUL DUB/REGGAE/DANCEHALL EXPERIMENTAL/IDM DOWNTEMPO DUBSTEP/GRIME SERATO CONTROL VINYL HOUSE TECHNO INDYTRONIC SYNTHWAVE/80'S/INDUSTRIAL UK BASS/FUTURE GARAGE/UKF WONKY GLITCH HOP AMBIENT/DRONE BATTLE BREAKS/ACAPELLAS DISCO ELECTRO/BREAKS GHETTO TECH/JUKE/FOOTWORK HIPSTER JUMP OFF PROGRESSIVE/TRANCE DRUM N' BASS BREAKCORE ROCK POP PUNK METAL JAZZ MILO A Toothpaste Summer / LP NEW VINYL / Fake Four 2015
His debut album, a toothpaste suburb, does just as much to play up the commonalities Milo has with his label mates (and his place in the underground hip-hop world) as it does to show o just who he is himself. Milo's own qualities are obvious from his first 16 bars: a heavy-lidded deadpan who calmly lets the punchlines deliver themselves, whether they're references to Arthur Schopenhauer or shameless fart jokes. Those aren't rare qualities—you get similar approaches on this very album from guests like Open Mike Eagle, who pulls Shel Silverstein wordplay on "objectifying rabbits", and Kool A.D., who is dementedly meta with a thinking-aloud verse on "in gaol". With the burbling, usually mellow digitalisms of producers iglooghost, Riley Lake, Greyhat, and Tastenothing giving his voice both gravity and lightness where it's needed, there's a feeling that Milo's been able to get in where he t in, not just got in 'cause he fought in.
But the realm of the West Coast art-wiseass black intellectual is neither one to take for granted or one to set a low barrier of entry for, and milo's place in and radiating outside of it is well earned o his own synthesis of experience. His referential eclecticism might otherwise seem random for its own sake in isolation, a string of phrases hammered into place; the second verse of "sanssouci palace" alone drops references to Avril Lavigne, Clerks, "Squidbillies", but the track starts cohering to depict a more complete identity the further it knits together. When it does, there's some deep rumination and staring into the void that exists beneath all the jokes. "salladhor saan, smuggler" is a stark autobio alluding to isolation and suicidal thoughts staved o by a steady diet of Jean Genet, Oce Space, and the subsequent realization that Milo was capable of total artistic freedom. A recurring through-line, the too-soon passing of his friend Rob, is both alluded to and directly addressed with a mixture of survivor's guilt, yearning, and resignation. So Milo's voice acts fairly slow to reveal the intentions beneath the words' surface, trusting listeners to connect the dots. That's one way of staking a claim on curious ears, a connection to someone who, per "a day trip to the nightosphere," doesn't dabble in secret societies. Milo's society is far more open.
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