One of the
best comparisons I can make for this Don't Talk to the Cops cassette is that it
reminds me a lot of what the mixed tapes used to sound like when I was a kid
and would record the songs off of the radio.
The only thing is, I didn't listen to music this good as a kid as I have
a distinctive memory of recording a lot of U2.
To describe
the sounds of Don't Talk to the Cops is to describe something that is too vast
to be contained by conventional boundaries.
It is hip hop, it has soul and it has a basic root of punk to it, but
this doesn't really sound how you might expect based upon that. In fact, whenever the terms “hip hop” and
“punk” are together these days, aside from lazy journalists I think of Odd
Future. This really doesn't sound like
Odd Future though, and I'm okay with that.
There are
instrumental bits, audio clips and just all around portions of this cassette
that you might find in the cassette culture, yet it has a certain amount of
funk- even closer to pop- in the tracks that makes me think of something along
the lines of Outkast or Gnarls Barkely, though of course it is not exactly like
either of those artists.
Don't Talk
to the Cops seems to truly be something best experienced to understand, but I
do assure you that this is more than enjoyable and could quite possibly become this
summer's hot jam as I want to hear it blasting from boomboxes to car
stereos.
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