Jul. 25, 2012 - Issue #875: Shout Out Out Out Out
Melancholy and the Infinite Shadness
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As a free—well make that pay what you want—download, Melancholy and the Infinite Shadness finds the Juno-clinching rapper playing to his strengths both silly and smart, but most of all just playing. The freewheeling "A Milli Vanilli" pulls on both its namesake lip-synchers and Lil' Wayne to before dissolving into the one big guitar hook of "Out Here (Cannonball)" and onto the more sentimental "It Ain't Over." He even drops a line from Outkast's "Hey Ya!" into his own: from the title to the tracking, reappropriation is the name of the game here, and Shad's still the Old Prince of that court, even on a tide-me-over EP like this.vueweekly.com comments: powered by Disqus
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