Jungle Fever 9Remix) the first trk I'm feeling so far.
― pandemic, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 10:20 (eleven years ago) link
And 'Castle On A Cloud' as well.
― pandemic, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 10:26 (eleven years ago) link
"castle on a cloud" is intense
to download:
http://www.djbooth.net/index/albums/review/angel-haze-reservation/
― bitch I'm on the 242 (lex pretend), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 18:17 (eleven years ago) link
WOW at "Werkin' Girls".
― Tim F, Thursday, 19 July 2012 22:46 (eleven years ago) link
like a cheetah in a jungle but i'm muthafuckin fasterlike a pre-teen boy in a church with a pastor
― bitch I'm on the 242 (lex pretend), Friday, 20 July 2012 09:36 (eleven years ago) link
i be on that other shit, got that from my other bitchshe come from an island or a desert or some TUNDRA SHIT
― bitch I'm on the 242 (lex pretend), Friday, 20 July 2012 09:37 (eleven years ago) link
Tundra shit is great yeah
― Number None, Friday, 20 July 2012 09:39 (eleven years ago) link
Best thing I've heard in a while I'm thinking. Real "R.P.M." vibes.
― Tim F, Sunday, 22 July 2012 04:28 (eleven years ago) link
I think I only like a few tracks from this. Too much DEEP THOUGHTS Angel Haze, which I've never had much use for.
― The Reverend, Monday, 23 July 2012 02:46 (eleven years ago) link
otm
― MikoMcha, Monday, 23 July 2012 10:28 (eleven years ago) link
DEEP THOUGHTS angel haze is what makes her special though imo - my favourite trax are also the bangers but without the DEEP THOUGHTS trax she's just another fast-tongued swag rapper with an ear for a simile.
― lex pretend, Monday, 23 July 2012 13:44 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah I agree with that - or, well, I haven't really thought about like the status of Angel Haze as a rapper, but certainly on this the tunes like "Gypsy Letters" and "Castle on a Cloud" really set off my actual favourites like "Workin' Girls" and "New York".
I'm having a very Lex phase at the moment - playing this and Melanie Fiona a lot.
― Tim F, Monday, 23 July 2012 13:48 (eleven years ago) link
"at the moment"
I'm rather behind but really looking forward to this, Altered Ego was great.
― Matt DC, Monday, 23 July 2012 14:10 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, but the DEEP THOUGHTS tracks completely bore the fuck out of me. She doesn't at all succeed in making me give a fuck about her deep thoughts.
― The Reverend, Monday, 23 July 2012 19:19 (eleven years ago) link
If Fall for Your Type and Things Money Can Buy didn't give you feelings I don't know that any of the DEEP THOUGHTS Haze on Reservation will change your mind.
― twinkin' and drinkin' and ready to fly (Alex in Montreal), Monday, 23 July 2012 22:20 (eleven years ago) link
lex, there's now a one month period before you're allowed to complain about people not paying enough attention to angel haze
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/16883-reservation-ep/
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 26 July 2012 17:29 (eleven years ago) link
― twinkin' and drinkin' and ready to fly (Alex in Montreal), Monday, July 23, 2012 3:20 PM Bookmark
ftr, they did not
― The Reverend, Thursday, 26 July 2012 18:23 (eleven years ago) link
― Tim F, Thursday, July 19, 2012 5:46 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this song is awesome. this tape is pretty hit or miss to me, was surprised to see jordan gave it an 8 on pfork
this is why caring about pfork scores is a lose lose, though; i want to see rap not suffer from deflation, but when that's corrected, it makes it look like this album is as good as flockaveli. lose-lose
― google deeznuts (D-40), Thursday, 26 July 2012 19:38 (eleven years ago) link
It is as good as flockaveli (which I also love)
Really excellent write-up jordan
― lex pretend, Thursday, 26 July 2012 21:10 (eleven years ago) link
Also b/c it's jordan it's not really a "pfork score" is it (as with a select few other writers on that site)
― lex pretend, Thursday, 26 July 2012 21:12 (eleven years ago) link
It's maybe a bit unbalanced (possibly too much emo, especially towards the end) but I really like 'Wicked Moon', 'New York', 'Werkin' Girls', 'Gypsy Letters' and the second half of 'Jungle Fever'. Not sure she really varies her flow as much as she could on the slower tracks and some of them feel kinda rote.
Really surprised that I actually like 'Wicked Moon' given that there are a load of signifiers in there that I usually can't stand but they're actually arranged in a way that feels atmospheric rather than just schlocky, and both Angel and Nicole sound great on it.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 26 July 2012 21:14 (eleven years ago) link
someone please tell me what song the melody at the end of 'jungle fever' is quoting/biting please?
― 40oz of tears (Jordan), Thursday, 26 July 2012 21:26 (eleven years ago) link
― lex pretend, Thursday, July 26, 2012 4:10 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
get outta here
― google deeznuts (D-40), Thursday, 26 July 2012 21:28 (eleven years ago) link
for once do you want to defend your position rather than acting like other people are talking like the earth is flat?
― lex pretend, Thursday, 26 July 2012 21:38 (eleven years ago) link
yeah i don't agree w/ that and i'm not necessarily sure that it's a position that requires a defense
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 26 July 2012 21:39 (eleven years ago) link
they're very different works that aren't directly comparable but they're as "accomplished" as each other and they'll probably both end up in my top 10 of the year
― lex pretend, Thursday, 26 July 2012 21:47 (eleven years ago) link
wait are you talking about the new flocka album?
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 26 July 2012 21:47 (eleven years ago) link
...no?
― lex pretend, Thursday, 26 July 2012 21:49 (eleven years ago) link
i forgot that existed (and therefore to listen to it more than once) amidst all of my computer woes
oh
i'm confused by "they'll probably both end up in my top 10 of the year" then
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 26 July 2012 21:50 (eleven years ago) link
as in, flockaveli did (i think?) and reservation probably will
― lex pretend, Thursday, 26 July 2012 21:51 (eleven years ago) link
ok i gotta listen to this then. i checker her out before but it sounded like atomsphere idk
― hardhouse banter (tpp), Thursday, 26 July 2012 22:03 (eleven years ago) link
atmosphere over drake beats
Also, y'know, the two reviews are by different writers with different opinions and not working to some empirical scale.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 26 July 2012 22:14 (eleven years ago) link
the two writers are both posting in this thread! i was about to go into more detail but it prob violates something in my freelance contract so w/e its not important
― google deeznuts (D-40), Thursday, 26 July 2012 23:07 (eleven years ago) link
It probably wouldn't be so much of an issue if people didn't habitually assume that pitchfork was in fact a single mind carefully calibrating each of its numerical scores.
― Tim F, Thursday, 26 July 2012 23:16 (eleven years ago) link
Great write up Jordan! Makes me appreciate this release a bit more. Certainly New York and Werkin Girls are awesome.
― MikoMcha, Friday, 27 July 2012 09:01 (eleven years ago) link
"It is as good as flockaveli"
lulz
― sisilafami, Friday, 27 July 2012 11:54 (eleven years ago) link
nobody? it's killing me.
― 40oz of tears (Jordan), Friday, 27 July 2012 15:24 (eleven years ago) link
― google deeznuts (D-40), Donnerstag, 26. Juli 2012 15:38 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
flockaveli is like a 9 tho
― reductio ad burzum (flopson), Friday, 27 July 2012 15:37 (eleven years ago) link
You do realise you guys are coming across like those insufferable dicks who read a Rolling Stone review of, I dunno, The-Dream and go "this means you think it's as good as Dark Side Of The Moon oh the outrage!"
― Matt DC, Friday, 27 July 2012 15:44 (eleven years ago) link
^^^^
current rap criticism is largely THE WORST for assuming the existence of an objective and rigorously policed set of assumptions that determine whether an artist is any good
― lex pretend, Friday, 27 July 2012 15:46 (eleven years ago) link
eg "lol @ your opinion, but we don't need to justify or explain ours because EVERYONE KNOWS IT TO BE SO"
― Matt DC, Friday, July 27, 2012 10:44 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
you really think that's the case when the two authors of both reviews are actually here, posting
― google deeznuts (D-40), Friday, 27 July 2012 16:47 (eleven years ago) link
― lex pretend, Friday, July 27, 2012 10:46 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
current lex criticism is largely THE WORST for using the exact same 'u must be a rockist' argument always. i don't think anyone here is in favor of strict rigorous assumptions of artists' value.
― google deeznuts (D-40), Friday, 27 July 2012 16:55 (eleven years ago) link
at least i used an argument at all?
― lex pretend, Friday, 27 July 2012 17:03 (eleven years ago) link
― 40oz of tears (Jordan), Friday, July 27, 2012 8:24 AM Bookmark
the Stevie Wonder song of the same title
― The Reverend, Friday, 27 July 2012 18:38 (eleven years ago) link
oh wait, nm
All im gonna say about angel haze v flockaveli is that at least waka never made me listen to a Kool AD verse
― mind your business lady (D-40), Friday, 27 July 2012 18:48 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0E6KYHxvEGg
classic
― In a slipshod style (Ross), Tuesday, 21 November 2017 05:37 (six years ago) link
love angel haze
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rN_nvLgR2_U
― kolakube (Ross), Saturday, 30 December 2017 23:15 (six years ago) link
back to the woods is a great slept-on record. Fraught with more paranoia and psychosis than the debut but wonderful all the same
― Eris (Ross), Friday, 6 April 2018 15:10 (five years ago) link
Don't know if it was mentioned on here anywhere, but Angel Haze is now called Roes
https://www.gaystarnews.com/article/pansexual-rapper-angel-haze-officially-changed-name/
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 6 April 2018 23:24 (five years ago) link
Classic classic classic
― dig me out requiem (Ross), Tuesday, 11 September 2018 22:01 (five years ago) link
stronghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOycRO6mabo
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 20 April 2021 14:47 (two years ago) link
I have been jamming out to that for most of 2021
― 80's hair metal , and good praise music ! (DJP), Tuesday, 20 April 2021 15:06 (two years ago) link
hell yeah
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 20 April 2021 15:24 (two years ago) link
very nice
― intern at pepe le pew research (Simon H.), Tuesday, 20 April 2021 15:52 (two years ago) link
that's great, nice to see she's back, had she sort of dropped out for a while?
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 20 April 2021 16:28 (two years ago) link
i think she poisoned the water a while back by dropping her album online without coordinating with her label.https://www.mtv.com/news/1719290/angel-haze-dirty-gold-album-leak/
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 20 April 2021 16:58 (two years ago) link
also that album was kind of bad
― 80's hair metal , and good praise music ! (DJP), Tuesday, 20 April 2021 17:18 (two years ago) link