This veteran, experimental, New Jersey-bred hip-hop duo has always attempted to fuse the sinister atmosphere of doom metal with the fundamental boom-bap of old-school hip-hop. On GUTTER TACTICS, MC Dalek and his producer okt0pus have leaned ... Full Descriptionheavily toward a menacing swirl of ambience and noise, with Dalek spitting sometime-spoken word, sometime-overly rapped, always-cryptic beat poetry about society's ills. Though ceaselessly inventive and mind-altering, TACTICS is less a true hip-hop record than a daring glimpse into what the BELLY soundtrack might have sounded like if David Lynch directed the film.Spin (p.79) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "MC Dalek and producer the Oktopus still find inspiration amid the noise."
Alternative Press (p.116) - 4.5 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he atmospheres are chilling and claustrophobic....GUTTER TACTICS is another collection on which fans of rap radicals Public Enemy and drone-metal heavies the Melvins can find common ground."
The Wire (p.50) - "GUTTER TACTICS is their weightiest, most oppressive release yet....Basslines churn the surface, slow and filthy as tar."
Mojo (Publisher) (p.107) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[T]heir most approachable set to date, studio whizz Oktopus eschewing both mainstream rap's minimalism and the jackhammer tendencies of hi earlier productions as he layers abstract electronica and swirling dissonance over rugged beats..."
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