Warp Records
2004
Shock City Maverick
About This Album
Riding another set of his own crisp, gleaming, jagged-edged productions, Beans follows his LP and EP releases from 2003 with Shock City Maverick. Nothing scrambles the brain like Tomorrow Right Now's "Hot Venom," and no track has lyrics that hit as hard as Now, Soon, Someday's "Win or Lose You Lose," but the album maintains a consistency that neither of those releases can claim. His flow remains unique, and he has the odd contradictions to match. In "Papercut," he slickly slips in a new way to describe the state of emasculation ("Hot as a tailpipe spits dynamite/And rips the mic right just like/How ya'll are supposed to/Never let a woman plant a flag in my testicles/Love to f*ck but don't f*ck around"), and then names a densely layered electro-techno instrumental after a quick-witted quip once delivered by Sex in the City's Charlotte ("You're Dead, Let's Disco"). ~ Andy Kellman, All Music Guide
Track List (try tracks 2,4,7 and 10)

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