Well, this was a surprise. Who would've thought a hip-hop/electronic duo from Ottawa could deftly combine old skool rhymes, b-boy beats and Friday-night hipster danceability? Inexplicably,
Dream Jefferson's latest album,
Punch Perm, manages to do just that.
The seven track affair barely clocks in at 30 minutes (and can be downloaded in full over at their
Bandcamp page),
but that's still 30 minutes of a drunken, sing-a-long basement party. While the music's not as galvanizing as, say, Odd Future, Dream Jefferson are a hell of a lot of fun--which is exactly what party rap should be.
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For too long, party rap has been the province of the hyper-sexual, presented comically or with straight faced perversion, with little or nothing to bridge the gap. What the genre lacks is a basis in reality, as opposed to a juvenile masturbatory fantasy, an honesty which would allow for a connection between the listener and the artist... From this day forward, party rap will be divided into two strata – everything else and this, [Dream Jefferson]," wrote the group on their website.
With intentions like those, is it any surprise these guys deliver some good times?
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