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Monday, May 8, 2006

987 More Days…of Gettin’ It On

Posted by on May 8 at 12:45 PM

I’m probably the last human being on Earth to get onto this hayride, but I think I’ve officially been driven insane by The Coup’s new album, Pick A Bigger Weapon. It sounds like the soundtrack to a 1970’s Pam Grier movie having lights-on make-up sex with Stankonia. It’s literate and political without being dry or forgetting that Stevie Wonder was, at one point, The Messiah.
And, though it’s not the best song on the album, the slow groove of track 15, “BabyLet’sHaveABabyBeforeBushDoSomethin’Crazy,” is the best excuse for fucking all night that I’ve heard in ages. In a just universe, this whould be the bestselling album in Seattle for the next six months.