Beans ~ Now Soon Some Day
“... Having a conversation w/ an ashtray
in comparison 2 each other,
they have nothing 2 say
insufficient as a pallbearer’s afterthought...”
and you might just find it repelled like a like-to-like magnet. No worries though – who needs straightforward? ‘Win Or Lose You Lose’ is constructed from smooth, shiny plastics and rubberised metals. This track’s laced with references to the wilfulness of smoking, maybe the alienation from a daughter and Beans’ strengths as an mc:
“... captured on tape yet the prose
remain fluid unaffected by shape
no rule a roof w/ no walls...”
Beans is travelling in electronica territory with curvilinear tones that
strain at their edges. His rhythms and rhymes are marshal, hectic, dystopian.
Think Tubeway Army spiced and spliced with raga’s unrelenting rhythms
and vocal delivery with the end result produced by the Neptunes.
Now Soon Some Day is a mini-album 33 minutes long, but full to the brim,
demanding to be heard and demanding to listen to – a single minute
more might tip the balance and be too much. Beans delivers great titles
- Mutescreamer, Databreaker, Gold Skull - and moving emotional honesty when
talking about his upbringing and parents (Crevice). Top it off with a couple
of Prefuse73 remixes in Uprock and Vocal Narratives mode and tasty Warp
packaging and Beans delivers an unstoppable sucker punch.