Every five years, El-P comes along with a new LP – and not even the end of Def Jux can change that. The New Yorker released his latest album on Fat Possum and has thereby become the label-mate of acts like Adam Green, T.Rex und Tyler Ramsey. To El-P’s fans, this probably sounds as strange as his tracks sound to many others. It’s not that surprising that many people don’t find the right access to his music – the title »Cancer for cure« marks the direction for the whole record to follow. The musician, born under the name of Jamie Meline, has yet again come up with a soundtrack for the post-modern apocalypse. The synth-infernos, accompanied by exploding drum-storms and distorted guitar-solos, which come out of his fleet of machines, are hard to be liked by traditional Hip-Hop-listeners, and are probably not to be consumed by unpracticed ears without it resulting in pain. At least, El-P uses more audio tracks in his opener than producers of the »Golden Era« used on a whole album. Rap-wise, too, El-P appears as exalted as we know him, although a little less aggressive than on »I’ll Sleep When You’re Dead«. But with all the lyrical and musical bombast that he fires on his albums, all this is nothing but hair-splitting. Hence, there are only two differences to be made when comparing this to his two previous records: on »C4C«, there are no guests from the old Def Jux crew but the rapper Despost, instead, El-P comes along with features by eXquire, Danny Brown, Paul Banks, Nick Diamonds and Killer Mike (whose LP he also produced). In addition, this time, he didn’t invite a DJ to his studios. Other than that, it all stayed the same: Weareallgoingtoburninhell!
C4C (Cancer For Cure)
