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Basehead, Play With Toys

Audio CD

Disk ID: 1306114

Disk length: 40m 31s (11 Tracks)

Original Release Date: 1992

Label: Unknown

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Tracks & Durations

1. Intro 1:02
2. 2000 BC 4:15
3. Brand New Day 4:27
4. Not Over You 4:38
5. Better Days 3:09
6. Ode to my Favorite Beer 3:42
7. Hair 3:48
8. Evening News 4:32
9. I Try 3:53
10. Play With Toys 4:03
11. Outro 2:56

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Review

The freaky brainchild of Michael Ivey, Basehead's music is deep semiotics disguised as slacker hip-hop. On his debut album, Ivey mumbles through songs about heartbreak, the meaning of life, and beer (several years before Beck, mind you) over a foundation of funky backbeats, one-note guitar grooves and scratchy lo-fi samples. Cleverly constructed skits woven throughout the songs add musical texture and layers of meaning: a changing radio dial mood-swings "Not Over You" from pretty and melancholic to comical, while the conversation that bookENDs "Ode to My Favorite Beer" turns it into a simultaneous examination of love, alcoholism and the creative process. Being African-American in Washington, D.C. has apparently given Ivey much to think about, as this album illustrates. --Suzanne McElfresh

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Play With Toys

Tracks: 11, Disk length: 41m 1s (+0m 30s)

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