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4RillaGorilla | 01/10/2007
(3 out of 5 stars)
"3.5 stars, more accurately. I got this album on sale from a recently defunct international music retailer (RIP) after I heard Silent Poets' nasty, nasty remix track on DJ Vadim's USSR Reconstruction album. Whereas that song was pure hip-hop, Sun offers a variety of different feels ranging from the classical-sounding intro and outro to some hip-hop-ish beats to the slightly more experimental and harder to classify stuff that could be filed under "downtempo" or "electronica" or something. Some tracks are instrumentals, some have vocalists (some funky singers mostly, I think), so the range and style of content on this album could be compared to Boozoo Bajou's Dust My Broom or DJ Krush's Zen, if that helps you. By this I mean that thematic consistency takes a back seat to experimentation and sampling of sounds. This album held my interest for a while but wasn't quite solid or cohesive enough to keep me reaching for it weeks later. Give me a few more months and I might pop it back in the deck for a spin or two, however, because I'm left with a generally favorable impression of Sun. Definitely talented production and some funky and pretty songs."