LP L'Orange & Jeremiah Jae - The Night Took Us in Like Family (24.04.2015)

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https://itunes.apple.com/de/album/id962648340

feat. Homeboy Sandman & Gift of Gab

About The Album
Enter those bloody alleys blocked off with yellow tape and chalk outlines. Secret backrooms riddled with sly crooks and blunt smoke. Slink into the underworld, the seedy shadowland owned by Jeremiah Jae and L’Orange on their noir-hop opus, "The Night Took Us In Like Family."

Consider it the alchemy of Madvillain and "The Maltese Falcon": a five-part fable of tangled crimes, narrow escapes, and raining lead. The door busts open with “A Conspicuous Man.” L’Orange’s carefully severed cinematic clips hold the frame steady. The Windy City-raised Jae muscles the narrative forward—the hitman creeping.

Beats bend sinister with imagery aiming for the temples. Jae invokes dark clouds, crowns of thorns and LSD eyes. Bars written in dirt. Samples are disembodied and ethereal. It’s like a grand jury indictment doubling as a Greek chorus. A song title like “Ice Obsidian” says it all. This is frozen lava, black and white celluloid, the spoils won by sinners. Watch your back rap.

Or maybe it’s the hip-hop version of the gangster flicks made before the Hays Code—raw and uncensored, deeply artful without pretension. Pitchfork once described Jae as: “a lot of people talk loud and say nothing; Jeremiah Jae finds strength in the inverse." On "The Night Took Us In Like Family," he inhabits both eulogizer and executioner. He triumphantly looms over the corpses and explains how this all came to be. L’Orange supplies concrete requiems of dusted soul: beats to crack safes, soundtracks to stealth assassinations.

If gangsta rap remains one of the genre’s most well worn tropes, Jae and L’Orange take inspiration from the rarely tapped roots of the tradition. This isn’t riffing on Oliver Stone’s "Scarface" like popular cliché, but rather the original Al Capone exploitation flick from the early 30s. Jae conjures a villain who vaporizes. Run-the-Jewels-raw but still sophisticated. Cuban cigars stuffed with California chronic.

The picture unfolds wide frame. Guest stars include New York poison dart-thrower, Homeboy Sandman and Blackalicious’ Gift of Gab. The chapters flesh out the story: The Conspicuous Man skulks into “God Complex,” “The Damning,” “Revenge and Escape.” Jae and L’ Orange build their world as a catacomb and find a way to escape just as the walls feel like they’re closing in. It fades out as “A Macabre Instrumental” plays. The funeral is closed casket. The memories aren’t easily disposed.
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L'Orange & Jeremiah Jae - Taken By The Night (Audio)
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Tracklist:

01. Part One: Introducing A Conspicuous Man
01. Do My Best To Carry On
03. Ice Obsidian
04. Underworld
05. All I Need (feat. Gift of Gab)
06. Part Two: God Complex
07. The Concrete Some Call Home
08. Ignore The Man To Your Right (feat. Homeboy Sandman)
09. Taken By The Night
10. Part Three: The Damning
11. The Lineup
12. Kicking Glass
13. Kind of Like Life
14. Part Four: Revenge & Escape
15. I Was Invisible Nothing
16. Death Valley
17. Starry Eyed Balcony Walkers
18. Part Five: Macabre
 
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Sehr geiles Teil. Ich wollte L´orange und hab L´orange bekommen.
 
Ich klick 3 Wochen zu spät auf den Vinyl Vorverkauf und es ist noch nicht alles ausverkauft :D Was ist da schiefgelaufen, die L'Orange Dinger waren bisher immer nach 3 Tagen weg bzw. Madd Writer nach paar Minuten. Auf wieviel waren die limitiert und gabs nur die Gold Splatter?
 
joa...wie gewohnt finde ich.
enttaeuscht nicht.
trotdem waer mir ein album von ihm in diesem stil lieber:
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die gold-splatter lp kann man noch bei john bestellen. :)
glueck gehabt.
dachte das waere nur als download erschienen...
 
Sehr intensives Album, lohnt sich definitiv. Passt nur gerade nicht zur Jahreszeit. :D
 
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