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The Cold Vein (CD)

By: Cannibal Ox (Artist)

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Cannibal Ox Artist Snapshot:

Combining a staunch street persona and intelligent ghetto narratives with a freaky, abstract lyrical approach and icy, ominous production, New York City rap duo Cannibal Ox released one of the most heralded albums of the then burgeoning indie hip-hop scene, 2001's THE COLD VEIN. Raw and original, the album is a landmark in underground hip-hop--in part for being one of the first releases to feature the deft production hand (and financial backing) of Company Flow MC and Def Jux Records honcho El-P.

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DISC 1 for The Cold Vein (CD) Album By Cannibal Ox (Artist)
1   Iron Galaxy
2   Ox Out The Cage
3   Atom - (featuring Alaska/Cryptic)
4   B-Boy's Alpha, A
5   Raspberry Fields
6   Straight Off The D.I.C.
7   Vein
8   F Word, The
9   Stress Rap
10   Battle For Asgard - (featuring Life/C Rayz Walz)
11   Real Earth
12   Ridiculoid
13   Painkillers
14   Pigeon
15   (untitled) - (hidden track)
 

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Review

Rolling Stone (9/13/01, p.112) - 3.5 stars out of 5 - "...Takes cues from New York underground avatars Company Flow...mixing their bookishness with equal amounts of soul....their rhymes are epic on their own..."
Spin (6/01, pp.148,152) - 7 out of 10 - "...This album has aggro soul....[They] hold up a jagged-edged prism to the very streets they render with such abstract beauty..."
Uncut (8/01, p.108) - 5 stars out of 5 - "...This is hip hop at its most visionary and challenging..."
Alternative Press (10/01, p.87) - 8 out of 10 - "...Uniquely complex and powerful..."
The Wire (1/02, p.41) - Ranked #2 in Wire's "50 Records of the Year 2001".
The Wire (5/01, p.54) - "...This is the best HipHop album for a long, long time. Bloody, grimy, intense, intimidating, tremulous, claustrophobic, but ultimately inspiring....the 'realest' HipHop since ENTER THE WU-TANG..."
CMJ (4/30/01, p.20) - "...A gothic innercity soundtrack dark and idiosyncratic like no other..."
NME (Magazine) (12/29/01, p.59) - Ranked #46 in NME's 50 "Albums Of the Year 2001".
NME (Magazine) (7/28/01, p.42) - 9 out of 10 - "...Fresh, complex genius..."

Title Note

Cannibal Ox: MC Vast Aire Kramer, MC Vordul.

Additional personnel includes: Alaska, Cryptic, Life, C Rayz Walz.

In sharp contrast to the "Izzo"-dominated airwaves at the time of its 2001 release, Cannibal Ox's debut album, THE COLD VEIN, stood on Company Flow's shoulders, making critics and listeners alike take notice of a strange rap underworld that was indeed alive and gathering strength. El-P's untouchable production work combined off-kilter drums, distorted keyboards, and molasses-thick samples to create an alternately dreamy and nightmarish soundscape over 15 tracks. While the relentless lyrical onslaught of Vordul and Vast Aire had rap fans scratching their heads in between nods when hit with ill metaphors like, "the sample's the flesh and the beat's the skeleton /You got beef but there's worms in your Wellington." No doubt the more prominent of the two MCs, Vast Aire proved himself one of the most wildly inventive lyricists on the planet, with a barrage of intricate rhyme schemes and anomalous delivery. THE COLD VEIN also stands among El-P's best work as a producer, and is perhaps the most powerful album to come out of the Definitive Jux label.

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