Cypress Hill - 2018 - Elephants On Acid (HDtracks) [[email protected]] (miok) [WWRG]

Cypress Hill - 2018 - Elephants On Acid (HDtracks) [[email protected]]

Artist: Cypress Hill
Title: Elephants On Acid (HDtracks)
Format: WEB, 21 files FLAC, Album, Remstered, 24bit 44.1kHz, HDtracks
Producer: DJ Muggs
Release Date: September 28, 2018
Recorded: 2018
Label: BMG Rights Management
Genre: Hip Hop, Alternative Hip Hop, Rap, West Coast Rap
Duration: 51:58


Cypress Hill:



Wikipedia:
Cypress Hill is an American hip hop group from South Gate, California. Cypress Hill was the first Latino American hip hop recording group to have platinum and multi-platinum albums, selling over 20 million albums worldwide. They are considered to be among the main progenitors of West Coast rap and hip hop in the early 1990s, being critically acclaimed for their first four albums. The band has also advocated for medical and recreational use of cannabis in the United States.


Elephants On Acid:



Wikipedia:
Elephants on Acid is the ninth studio album by American hip hop group Cypress Hill, and is the group's first studio album in eight years following Rise Up making it the group's longest gap between albums. The album was released on September 28, 2018. The album includes 21 tracks. Unlike Rise Up, the group’s last album which was produced by a number of people, this album is fully produced by Muggs, just like the classic first albums Cypress Hill and Black Sunday.

AllMusic Review by Fred Thomas:
Thirty years into any music career, the pressure is generally off. Cypress Hill, active since 1988 and best known for their weed-friendly gangsta rap hits from the '90s, could easily rewrite and revisit the ideas that made them famous for the rest of their days and fans would delight in the familiarity. Certainly, Elephants on Acid, Cypress Hill's ninth studio album and first since 2010's Rise Up, is full of their trademarks -- hits from the bong, puffed-up bravado, and ominously creepy flows or sunny stoned soliloquies. Less expected is a creative rebirth from a cartoonish crew that could rest on their past accomplishments and enjoy life as a legacy act. Elephants on Acid is just that, however, a deeply imaginative and risky set of new material from a group of old heads still interested in pushing their craft to new places. The 21-track album is the first collection produced by DJ Muggs since 2004's 'Til Death Do Us Part. Muggs' signature siren squalls and booming bass have morphed into a drifting, psychedelic treasure chest here, with trippy beats meeting multiple instrumental interludes. Some sessions for the album took place in Egypt, where Muggs not only hired street performers to play sitar, oud, flute, and other live instruments, but also worked with Egyptian pop vocalists Sadat and Alaa Fifty Cent who sing the chorus for single "Band of Gypsies." B Real's wheezing rhymes here are standard, but the backdrop of searing guitar solos and hazy, loping percussion put a psychedelic filter on the song informed by both the country where it was recorded and a heavy classic rock influence. Adventurous production on the cloudy, organ-heavy "Jesus Was a Stoner" and the horror-movie-soundtrack-anxiety of "Pass the Knife" are eons ahead of the frantic stoner rap the group made their name on. Repeat listens locate Muggs at the core of the album's creative push. He built the tracks here mostly from scratch, using a single Hiroshima sample and otherwise working with other musicians or playing all of the instruments himself, resampling his own work until it sounded like the worn-out vinyl sources he grew up working with. Elephants on Acid breaks new ground for Cypress Hill, but they don't commit entirely to an artistic about face. Pressure cooker tracks like "Put Em in the Ground" and "Locos" split the difference between Muggs' sonic exploration and the group's time-tested approach. There's a cheese factor here, as well. Formulaic romps like "Crazy" and "Through the Rabbit Hole" are pandering, cobbled together from tired big beats and too-stoned lyrics. They aim for the zany energy of the group's glory days but land closer to Insane Clown Posse levels of mediocrity. Ultimately, superfans might be polarized by the experimental musings of Elephants on Acid, but those with some distance will find this curiously assembled collection pleasantly puzzling in its layers of trippy appeal. Something this unexpected from such an established act can't help but feel refreshing.


Tracklist:

01 - Tusko (Intro) (0:48)
02 - Band of Gypsies (3:49)
03 - Put Em in the Ground (2:21)
04 - Satao (Interval) (0:29)
05 - Jesus Was a Stoner (3:25)
06 - Pass The Knife (3:36)
07 - LSD (Interval) (0:37)
08 - Oh Na Na (2:57)
09 - Holy Mountain (Interval) (1:15)
10 - Locos (3:18)
11 - Falling Down (2:19)
12 - Elephant Acid (Interlude) (0:52)
13 - Insane OG (1:23)
14 - The 5th Angel (Instrumental) (2:01)
15 - Warlord (3:17)
16 - Reefer Man (3:22)
17 - Thru the Rabbit Hole (Interlude) (1:54)
18 - Crazy (2:52)
19 - Muggs is Dead (2:11)
20 - Blood on My Hands Again (3:20)
21 - Stairway to Heaven (5:41)


Personnel:

Cypress Hill:

Louis "B-Real" Freese – lead vocals
Lawrence "DJ Muggs" Muggerud – turntables, samples
Senen "Sen Dog" Reyes – vocals
Eric "Bobo" Correa – drums, percussion

Additional Musician:

Fredwreck - Keyboards, Guitar, Mix







24/7 Seedbox Support