Mike Ladd: Nostalgialator
Copy at Case Memorial Library
Eric R. Danton wrote in his Hartford Courant blog Sound Check: "The Boston-born French transplant is part hyper-literate MC, part hyperkinetic studio wizard with an ear for booming psychedelic soul vamps and gritty electro-rock rave-ups on 'Nostalgialator' (Definitive Jux). It’s his most wide-ranging album, with busy songs packed full of blaring horns, guitars and synthesizers and, inevitably, beat after irresistible beat. Ladd gets revved up over zooming bass on 'Wild Out Day,' rides a scratchy, vintage-sounding guitar sample on 'Black Orientalist' and offers a spoken-word dissertation on the poetic allegory 'How Electricity Really Works.' It’s subtle and moving, almost as much as when Ladd chills all the way out with his subdued singing on 'Sail Away Ladies,' a cover of the traditional gospel song anchored here by a soulful Fender Rhodes sound. … 'Nostalgialator' may spring from the past, but it’s the sound of the looming future" (1/16/08).
N.B. Mike Ladd is the son of Florence Ladd, author of the novel Sarah's Psalm.
Eric R. Danton wrote in his Hartford Courant blog Sound Check: "The Boston-born French transplant is part hyper-literate MC, part hyperkinetic studio wizard with an ear for booming psychedelic soul vamps and gritty electro-rock rave-ups on 'Nostalgialator' (Definitive Jux). It’s his most wide-ranging album, with busy songs packed full of blaring horns, guitars and synthesizers and, inevitably, beat after irresistible beat. Ladd gets revved up over zooming bass on 'Wild Out Day,' rides a scratchy, vintage-sounding guitar sample on 'Black Orientalist' and offers a spoken-word dissertation on the poetic allegory 'How Electricity Really Works.' It’s subtle and moving, almost as much as when Ladd chills all the way out with his subdued singing on 'Sail Away Ladies,' a cover of the traditional gospel song anchored here by a soulful Fender Rhodes sound. … 'Nostalgialator' may spring from the past, but it’s the sound of the looming future" (1/16/08).
N.B. Mike Ladd is the son of Florence Ladd, author of the novel Sarah's Psalm.
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