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Friday, August 19, 2005

Anticipating Danger Doom

Posted by on August 19 at 11:09 AM

I’ve just completed my first listen of it, but Danger Doom’s The Mouse & the Mask is sounding like the best hiphop album of 2005, living up to the unrealistic expectations such a collab between two underground phenoms inspires. Danger Mouse unveils track after track of odd, funky ingenuity (seamlessly meshing old school and next level) and MF Doom reasserts his status as the funniest, cleverest MC flecking mics with saliva today. The album drops Oct. 11 on Epitaph, the filthy rich punk label. That’s so damned twisted…