*** Lurking somewhere between Nirvana and NWA, jdwalker’s breakthrough album Them Get You… Them Got You offers a vivid glimpse into the intriguing, lovely, and raw intellect of this modest man from Portland, Maine. Combining the brilliance of Johnny Cash, Rakim, and The Pixies, the eleven-year veteran of Maine’s fishing industry delivers heartfelt hip hop and fisherman blues-anthems minus trendy bullshit. The album’s psycho-ambient guitars, fierce electro-hop drums and elaborate glitch-rock harmonies swirl in a rap-metal / folk-hop hybrid that provides the perfect setting for jdwalker’s neo-Bukowski poetics and plane ticket storytelling. The songs on Them Get You… Them Got You were recorded in Portland over the course of a year and feature studio appearances from alias, bleubird, k-the-i, Sontiago and longtime collaborator, producer and anticon co-founder sole.
CD $12.00
11/08/2005