Trystan's Best #15: Dan Le Sac Vs. Scroobius Pip - Angles

Released September 2nd, 2008

Angles has enough wit and scathing observation for every MC in the business to take some, and it would still be the best hip-hop album of the decade. Annihilated by some pretentious asshole at Pitchfork, this album never really got the recognition it deserved. It opens with a clip of voice-man Scroobius Pip dropping some slams on an unsuspecting audience and then segues into "The Beat That My Heart Skips" by way of Dan Le Sac's frenetic, bouncing beats. There are too many good songs to mention here. "Thou Shalt Always Kill", where Pip lays out his rules on life music, and everything else, and "Angles", a more somber track about the effects of one's actions on others. Almost no one is left unscathed in Pip's poetic crosshairs, but he and Dan Le Sac do it in such a booty-bumping way, you might not care. Download it, burn it to a CD, and blast it in your car. You'll know what I mean.