Animal Nation

This is a fucking weird album. Somewhere between Eyedea & Abilities and G. Love and Special Sauce, this B.C. duo decided that the daily operations of Homo sapiens in their natural habitat is a strong enough concept for a record that follows these particular specimens from waking dream to bacon and eggs, through work, more work, play, every manner of human contact, the importance of flossing, and back to rest and reverie. They are correct. Musically and thematically, hip hop conventions take a back seat to hallucinatory headphone cinema. 7.5/10 - Montreal Mirror

This is a fucking weird album. Somewhere between Eyedea & Abilities and G. Love and Special Sauce, this B.C. duo decided that the daily operations of Homo sapiens in their natural habitat is a strong enough concept for a record that follows these particular specimens from waking dream to bacon and eggs, through work, more work, play, every manner of human contact, the importance of flossing, and back to rest and reverie. They are correct. Musically and thematically, hip hop conventions take a back seat to hallucinatory headphone cinema. 7.5/10 - Montreal Mirror

These darn Canadian indie hip hoppin' rappers with their sweet-spot beats and their free-flowing rhymes. They're really startin' to make us U-S-of-A-er's look sloppy. Sending the sounds down south via Whistler, BC, this duo throws the true school fastball and mixes it up with a flurry of lyrically dense curves and off-the-wall knuckleballs. After setting the stage with the deeply grooved "Soul Station," they jump right in, taking "Party Animals" and sticking to the title waaay more literally than you would think possible. While that song is certainly one of the aforementioned knucklers, tracks like "Her Dangerous Smile" and "The Me in Me" play it a little closer to the vest, opening up about real-life issues but never wallowing in a pool of self-obsession. The beauty of this record lies not far beneath that approach: it's just a couple of dudes making some songs that they would want to listen to. This not only accounts for their attention to detail, but their overall excellence in execution. Well played. - CDBaby.com

These darn Canadian indie hip hoppin' rappers with their sweet-spot beats and their free-flowing rhymes. They're really startin' to make us U-S-of-A-er's look sloppy. Sending the sounds down south via Whistler, BC, this duo throws the true school fastball and mixes it up with a flurry of lyrically dense curves and off-the-wall knuckleballs. After setting the stage with the deeply grooved "Soul Station," they jump right in, taking "Party Animals" and sticking to the title waaay more literally than you would think possible. While that song is certainly one of the aforementioned knucklers, tracks like "Her Dangerous Smile" and "The Me in Me" play it a little closer to the vest, opening up about real-life issues but never wallowing in a pool of self-obsession. The beauty of this record lies not far beneath that approach: it's just a couple of dudes making some songs that they would want to listen to. This not only accounts for their attention to detail, but their overall excellence in execution. Well played. - CDBaby.com