This exclusive package includes a Guante + Big Cats sticker, a Download Card with a code unlocking the Instrumental album, a digital chapbook from Guante, plus photos and images! While supplies last.
Click here for your FREE MP3 DOWNLOAD of the first single "The National Anthem" featuring Haley Bonar!Producer
Big Cats (best known for "Black Out on White Night" from Sage Francis'
Human The Death Dance album) and rapper
Guante have created an
album that is unapologetically political, unflinchingly descriptive and
undeniably ambitious. Never content to settle for
rapping-about-rapping clichés, easy, faux-revolutionary pandering or
abstract, pseudo-intellectual gibberish, the duo instead have focused
on storytelling. While most hip hop stories are confined to one song,
the concept album structure gives
Guante room to really push the
boundaries of hip hop narrative; close listens reveal multiple
instances of foreshadowing, recurring motifs, subtle character
development, and more. Sure, this is hip hop as high art, but it’s
also high art as a love story about zombies, superpowers and
post-apocalyptic America. “An Unwelcome Guest” is released by rising
indie label, Tru Ruts/Speakeasy Records.
Featuring an appearance by SFR's Prolyphic.
“Earnestness can go wrong in hip hop. On this album, it goes very right.”
--Sage Francis
"Part Cormac McCarthy, part Woody Guthrie, and part Public Enemy,
An Unwelcome Guest
is an intricately woven poetic and sonic excursion through landscapes
mental, emotional, and physical, cementing Guante and Big Cats!'s
status as two of the best emerging artists within Twin Cities hip-hop."
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TC Daily Planet Album Review -
http://bit.ly/5OeTYF"The semi concept album by the spoken word poet/rapper is arresting and
innovative while still having a loose feel to it that doesn't ever feel
like preaching... It really is one of the best local releases of the year and is a must listen for any fans of hip hop." -
Whiskey for Holy Ghost -
http://bit.ly/6rBxDt
Tracklisting:
01
Stories
02 If It Bleeds, It Leads
03 The National Anthem (feat. Haley Bonar)
04 The Stockholm Syndrome (feat. Prolyphic & Big Quarters)
05 Raindrops In A Hurricane
06 No Capes
07 Welcome to the Border (feat. Chastity Brown)
08 With Great Power
09 A Hug From A Stranger
10 Red States
11 Dragons
12 Like The Dead Running
13 Yes, God Is A DJ: No, Not A Good One (feat. Eric Blair)
14 The Damp, Foggy Midnight
15 End Credits
