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Miss Fairchild - Foreign Lands

So here it is: a fantastic hip hop odyssey straight out Providence. Rolling the best of the weird emcees and producers into one jelly roll of awesome, Miss Fairchild sounds like an after hours sex session with Prince, Beck, Andre 3000, Q-Tip and Lord Quas -- all taking place at Zappa's Joe's Garage. This shit is just so weird. I mean, here we got emcee Wrall Skillz doing his best ball-squashing falsetto and looking like Napoleon Dynamite. It's ridiculous to the point of absurdity.

But yet... there's something so appealing about it. His flow is undeniable, and Dj P-Nice's production is solid. To their credit, they don't go out and call this "hip hop," instead settling on the term "Underpop." That makes a lot of sense to me. The kid's rapping about Nantucket. What else are you gonna call it?

This is probably the most uptempo track on the record, with most of them travelling deep into booty territory, which somehow works for them. I'd rather they do more stuff like Foreign Lands on their next record, but their booty anthems are decidedly decent (if a tad overlong). I definitely recommend this album, for no other reason than you won't hear anything else like it this year. It's amazing.

Definitely go check out the Miss Fairchild website. They've got a nice store there where you can pick up their album for $7. Not bad. They've also got plenty of downloadable tracks. Highly recommended.