One of the coolest things about
SXSW is all of the free stuff that you come across as you wander around 6th
Street. Outside of free shirts my favorite item to pick up is all the
random CDs that are scattered about. For instance I found Vice's
Guide To Bands comp on a pool table at some bar and ended up with new
songs from LCD Soundsystem, Dungen and Sage Francis, who is is the subject
of my ramble today. I had been anxiously waiting to hear something new
from my favorite hip hop artist and Vice totally delivered with a track that
I have had stuck in my head since I first heard it last Thursday.
Human The Death Dance drops on May 8 and Sage will be hitting the road
soon after that with Buck 65 and Alias in support of it. I'm already
too excited.
:Sage Francis feat Jolie Holland - Got Up This
Morning:
I have always appreciated Sage's willingness to use music
that has some layers and not just a crazy beat. This spaghetti
western-esque song has a spiffy little acoustic guitar riff that is repeated
throughout the song as a simplistic beat comes and goes depending on the
line being delivered. Vocally, Sage and Jolie sound great together.
The way Jolie's delivery is drawn out serves as a good compliment to Sage,
who is as good vocally and lyrically as he as ever been. It would be
hard for anyone to not love this song.
I believe that
during the making of Human The Death Dance Sage must
have become a bit stir crazy because he made one bizarre
video staring a possessed refrigerator, Evel Knievel and
himself. Let the laughter ensue.
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