Track Listing

1. Fantastic Damage
2. Squeegee Man Shooting
3. Deep Space 9mm
4. Tuned Mass Damper
5. Dead Disnee
6. Delorean
7. Truancy
8. The Hang, The Front, The Bush And The Shit
9. Accidents Don't Happen
10. Stepfather Factory
11. T.O.J.
12. Dr. Hellno And The Praying Mantus
13. Lazerfaces' Warning
14. Innocent Leader
15. Constellation Funk
16. Blood

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #12123 in Music
• Released on: 2009-11-24
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Explicit Lyrics
• Dimensions: .22 pounds

From Amazon.co.uk
The debut solo album from El-P, Fantastic Damage finds this rap firebrand elucidating on the confrontational themes that have characterised his career to date. As the lodestar of influential hip-hop trio Company Flow, founder of independent hip-hop label Def Jux, and producer for Cannibal Ox's outstanding apocalyptic rap work The Cold Vein, El-P has indelibly stamped his name across the landscape of leftfield hip-hop. But Fantastic Damage is quite possibly his most extreme statement yet: a sprawling magnum opus of broiling anger and dysfunctional angst, expressed through his violent production techniques and satirical rhymes.

In spirit, the music echoes the revolutionary squall of the Bomb Squad, while not actually sounding a huge amount like it: the blistering funk of "Deep Space 9 mm" boasts a far more syrupy feel than Public Enemy's tight jams, while "Dead Disnee" boasts more in common with the modern wave of laptop-wielding electronica artists than any traditional rap groove. Rhyme-wise, too, this is a bleak work: "Stepfather Factory" envisages a menacing apocayptic future where errant parents are replaced by malfunctioning cyborgs, while "Deep Space 9 mm" finds El-P waxing unprintable about his former record label, Rawkus. At 70 minutes, it's a spot long--but anyone acquainted with El-P's earlier work should lap this up. --Louis Pattison

Customer Reviews

Fabulous
I can lisen to this CD over and over and over and it never gets old. I love it.

El-P is a genious.

dear el-p,
this album is total crap.
if you want real experimental hip-hop check out the anticon crew. there is nothing "new" about any of this sludge...just listen to the samples to experience the pain this man has inflicted upon society. he should be caned...or flogged...or something that involves a sack of oranges.

Visionary
Everything about this is visionary. Everyone has their own style, MF Doom playing with jazz forms, Mr. Lif doing his funky PE type thing, and then we El-P doing his almost Warp records inspired glitch hop. Don't take the "glith" term too literally. This album is the first real album for the future of underground hip hop, when many people refuse to continue and stay complacent. El-P spues lyrics on society, Enron and its truly amazing. This is probably one of the noisiest hip hop records I've ever heard, truly innovative and intelligent.