Flo Rida - Mail On Sunday
March 31, 2008 – 1:23 pmYou probably know this Miami MC from “Low,” a club jam about pursuing a girl in Apple Bottoms jeans — it spent ten weeks at Number One on the Hot 100. For much of his debut album, Flo Rida seems like he’s trying to match the broad appeal of “Low,” but he has only limited success: Big, brawling cuts like “Priceless,” an homage to the cash lining Flo’s pockets, are just generic pop rap, relying on speedy rhymes, slick grooves and not-that-hooky hooks. Most of the guest vocalists — including Sean Kingston, Rick Ross and Brian “Baby” Williams — seem to have phoned in their contributions, though a couple of big-name producers help a little bit: Will.i.am lays down the sexy electro-pulse of “In the Ayer,” and Timbaland chips in a buzzy beat on “Elevator.” But for much of Mail, the synth beats and Flo’s flows — many of them about girls and money — sound pretty standard-issue. And when Mail changes pace, it’s with “Still Missin,” a sappy slow-jam with a whiny chorus that goes, in part, “My ho still missin’.” Strangely enough, the song doesn’t quite cut it as far as pathos goes.
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Cavelara Conspiracy is the reunion of two legendary brothers of the Thrash metal scene. They split their union in 1996 when Max Cavalera leaved Sepultura because of a fight between his wife (the manager of the band) and the rest of Sepultura. He formed Soulfly while Sepultura get a new singer a change their sound a bit more to Hardcore metal. Soulfly got a bit of popularity but the fans of sepultura were not happy with a bordline new-metalish nound. In 2006 Igor decided to quit Sepultura because he wanted to get a break. In 2007 the two brothers decided to reunite and their first jams were magic. They formed Cavalera Conspiracy.
Inflikted is a good mix of both Soulfly and Sepultura. In fact, songs like Nevertrust, Sanctuary, Black Ark and Bloodbrawl could have been taken from Chaos A.D. or Roots. Nevertrust is a short song that reminds me a lot of Biotech Is Godzilla. The song is fact, punkish guitar riff, engaged lyrics. Sanctuary is more Refuse/Resist sounding with a catchy chorus and strong riffing during the bridge. The Soulfy sound is coming from songs like Inflikted, Ultra-Violoent, Hex and The Doom of all Fires. Those songs add the more tribal hardcore sounding of Soulfly. The album also features some typical electro-industrial sound as usual.
One of the big turnoff for this album is Igor work. He always had been an awesome drummer, especially on Arise and Chaos A.D. It’s not that he did a bad job, but he’s drumming is not in the front row even if he’s one of the two reunited brothers. Some grooves like the opening of terrorize are great and fresh he’s mostly doing the typical metal drumming thing.
Also named on the Queen’s coveted list is chat show king Michael Parkinson, who will be knighted in 2008, and Lord of The Rings star Sir Ian McKellen, who becomes a Companion of Honour.
Unsurprisingly, for a man who has slow-cooked his cortex in adventurous chemicals, there were hitches in collecting the rocker’s thoughts. Seven months ago, Pandora reported that Ozzy (busy touring) had missed his deadline, requiring wife Sharon to pen an emergency follow-up to her own autobiography.