![]() Paradoxically, the thing that makes Vaudeville Villain good is also its limiting reagent: the creation of such a murky album comes at the expense of any real shift in dynamics. The closest analogy I can think of is that listening to Vaudeville Villain is like walking through a smoky room where all definition is banished and where everything you take in is never nothing more than hazy impressions. ![]() This means that, if you're not careful, you can come away from listening to the CD with the uneasy feeling that nothing you've heard is memorable enough to have stuck in your mind. As such, it's a headphones album all the way - close listening revealing as it does the carefully crafted beats and the slight lyrical tricks that the easily bored so desperately crave in hip hop. It is also in these nuances that you'll find the musical genius of Vaudeville Villain. ![]() ![]() The star of the show is Viktor Vaughn - probably one of the most charismatic MCs currently rhyming rhymes - who alternates between gritty street tales and kitsch sci-fi and sometimes plots a course between the two. ![]()
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