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Show PAGE ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT 4 WEDNESDAY 2/23 *Daily Utah Chronicle The Fletch Fetch t. Four out of five stars Four and a half out of five stars Aesop Rock's arsenal of Sugar Hill-schooled hip-hop skills rushed the frontlines of innovative hip hop on the wings of last year's Bazooka Tooth, but it's now, on the NYCM.C.'s new-fashioned release, Fast Cars, Danger, Fire and Knives, that Aesop's lyrical smart-bombs find their truest mark. The cut "Winner Takes All" takes Del's brand of space madness, drives it to the ghetto, forces it to hang out with Rakim's street majesty and presents the aftermath with a true emcee's flare for innovation. As Aes breaks new necks with the religious rancor of "Holy Smokes," he ignites revolutionary flames that burn—almost—as bright as his ghetto-wise wisdom. Fast Cars drives into new hip hop ground while never totally burning the bridges of convention which bore Aesop to his current level. An overall ahead-ofits-time offering from a man on the cutting-edge. Jori/imtw ."»?' Tori Amos The Beekeeper Epic * * * Three out of five stars Iron and Wine Woman King EP Sub Pop Aesop Rock Fast Cars, Danger, Fire and Knives EP Definitive Jux :f Musing over the impact of tangerIron and Wine mastermind (and bearded wonder!) Sam Beam ine panties (literally: "The Power of changed a whole bunch during the Orange Knickers"), slumbering with making of his newest record, the bugs (again, literally: "Sleeping with seven-song Woman King EP. Fear Butterflies") and toast ("Toast"...senot Sub-Pop clad-in-plaid hipsters— riously, toast.), Tori Amos' latest enBeam did not invest in a razor. What deavor, The Beekeeper, declares her he did invest in was an electric gui- newly appointed position as reigntar (a new invention, as far as Beam ing queen of the obvious. Once loved is concerned), production value and for her adult-contemporary anthems hi-fi stylings—all of which mark a of sadistic-sexcapades and self-pleastark departure from previous Iron sure, Amos returns to her roots atop and Wine efforts. Beam still retains the pheromone-stockpile "Sweet the haunting ability to craft music the Sting," but thoroughly kills the that's beautiful in a recently-un- mood when she croons, "will it end earthed-antique sort of way while or begin in your cinnabar juice?" basking in clouds of sweat-laden Yes, that's a real line. No, the rest of Southern humidity—he just goes The Beekeeper isn't much better.. about his usual business in a much more refined, professional manner these days. The Woman King EP has hints of restoration-era traditional folk standards ("Jezebel") and a fondness for rockin' neo-folk jams ("Freedom Hangs Like Heaven"), but while it's undeniably a royalty of a different family for Iron and Wine, this Woman King never forgets her down-home roots. Comeback Kid Wake the Dead Victory Records Sole Live in Rome Anticon Records Four out of five stars Three and a half out of five stars Wake the Dead is a hardcore record, not a mascara-streaked-fashion-core-love-note or a tribal-tattooed-nu-metal-bro-down—a good old fashioned, pissed-off hardcore punk war cry. Comeback Kid resurrects the ghosts of fallen melodic hardcore heroes Gorilla Biscuits ("Partners in Crime") and Lifetime ("Wake the Dead") but enlists the heavier-tendencies of contemporaries Bane ("Talk is Cheap") to amass an army of youth-crew throwbacks, strong enough to wake hardcore's dying corpse. Sage Francis reps the mean streets of Rhode Island in SLC Dan Fletcher A&E Writer While Public Enemy battled poverty and prison to establish their street-status, emcee Sage Francis battled bachelor degrees and coffee house slam-poets (sooo damn scary...) on the mean streets of Providence, R.I. Don't think this made Sage a softie. The New England emcee's hollow-tipped battle raps have laid waste to the most prestigious of freestyle adversaries and earned accolades from all who have witnessed his venomous tonguelashings. 2002's' Personal Journals witnessed Sage tear himself apart to introduce the world to his inner demons over a soundtrack of minimalist, Anticon beats. Not to rest on his laurels, Sage took up arms with long-time accomplice While Sole's third subterranean soliloquy, Live in Rome, is not actually live, nor a soul record, it does pump the life-blood of hip-hop's soul through each of its 17 insurgent veins. The Eminem parody of Tmsotired" plants Sole's forked tongue-firmly-in-cheek over Anticon's classic pocket-protector, boom-bap. As the seditious spoken-word of "Atheist Jihad" cements Sole's satiric stardom, it's lines like, "It's not the draft that scares/ but it's killing them when they come and get me," that re-affirm this emcee's recent relocation to Barcelona, Spain, in its ex-patriot undertones and exotic rhyme appeal. 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