Psued's Corner cont
To paraphrase Mark Pytlik, who expresses himself far more eloquently than me on the matter (see allmusic.com `Selling Live Water' review): Most Anticon records attempt to play a disingenuous trick on the listener by selling themselves as high-concept when they're really hip-hop Dada. For all their dense, breathless wordplay and thick, stewy production, you'd be forgiven for thinking that there's a surfeit of content, threads to untangle, layers to peel through. The disappointing reality is that all these five-dollar words and murky sonic tapestries are impressionistic at best, a fact that wouldn't be in the least bit troubling were Anticon's more lucid moments not filled with blazing rhetoric in deference to some sort of hidden insight.