{"product_id":"bd248","title":"Busdriver - Perfect Hair","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat would Gravity’s Rainbow sound like as a rap album? Here is an album which, if we may, reminds the listener of their whispered allegiances to fundamental realities. The brushstrokes are delicate, stabbing, pointed. The overwhelming crescendo they whirl towards may be one of bitterness, and rightfully so. There is also lightness. A black man is giggling and pointing at you. It may have everything and nothing to do with rap and one’s place in it. Humiliation, no longer a threat—but a reality, has been exhausted. \u003cem\u003ePerfect Hair\u003c\/em\u003e is what remains.\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe album vibrates, oscillating between journalistic extremes du jour, occupying a space few have let rap extend to. It is neither cheerful nor depressing, beyond those qualifiers. The rapper, having moved past the limited authority of rejection or ostracization, has arrived at a truth. A Whole Sick Crew of characters weave their way across the shifting stage. \u003cstrong\u003eAesop Rock\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eDanny Brown\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eOpen Mike Eagle\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003ePegasus Warning\u003c\/strong\u003e all spit directly earwards. Additional production by \u003ca href=\"\u0026lt;a%20href=\"\u003eJeremiah Jae\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/ninjatune.net\/artist\/mono-poly#.U57ZCq2wLsU\"\u003eMono\/Poly\u003c\/a\u003e and many more.  Album artwork is brought to you by the legendary and talented \u003cstrong\u003eJohn Lurie\u003c\/strong\u003e. \r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe listener has been trained. The listener has developed a palate for the baroque, the garish, the cruel and bloody. The listener has become accustomed to being guided not by ear but belly. Here is an album with the referential delicacy of a snowflake, and the nourishing qualities of that little drop of frozen water. It’s ending leaves the listener at a loss, stupefied by the risk taken. And at that moment of recognition, it seems to blink itself out of existence. The loss is yours.\r\nAnd that loss is the motivating factor for what exists on this album beneath thick layers of discarded dreadlocks: a truth. That humiliating losses, communicated unflinchingly, lead one to an insatiable, bubbling hunger: to expand one’s space, to grow.\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe refreshing, restorative value of an a posteriori vantage is reaffirmed—experience being the most vivacious source of wisdom and creation. There is an ineffable cool present coaxing your attention and rewarding your insights.\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn \u003cem\u003ePerfect Hair\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/ninjatune.net\/artist\/busdriver#.U57Yj62wLsU\"\u003eBusdriver\u003c\/a\u003e defies the betted ante. The pieces, parts, sinews, synapses, synopses, passions, thrusts, and bits burst outward and realign of their own tremendous gravity. It is on this album that an OG announces his presence.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ninjatune","offers":[{"title":"2xLP","offer_id":44934165102751,"sku":"BD248","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"CD","offer_id":44934165135519,"sku":"BDCD248","price":10.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0493\/8563\/5999\/products\/perfect-hair-main.jpg?v=1736246855","url":"https:\/\/merch.ninjatune.net\/products\/bd248","provider":"Ninja Tune","version":"1.0","type":"link"}