[rating=2.00]
The freaky electro beats catch the ear first before the torrents of verbiage cascade down. Beans doesn’t so much rhyme per say as he avalanches. Overwhelming but the full running time of End It All is not a bloated…well beyond its lyric sheet which weighs a ton. A track like “Air Is Free” is a screed towards oil that rambles into self boasting, mixing lines and themes for 3:15 without a pause. While a powerful demonstration of vocal technique once you get by the uniqueness it doesn’t affect you much.
The beats and production skitter about, constantly thin but never dull or boring. If the measure doesn’t accommodate him, Beans will just jam in the words he wants to spit, breaking up any sort of flow. Choruses are next to non-existent and forget party songs. “Glass Coffins” and “Forever Living Fresh” straddle old school and futuristic playing as the most engaging track, but too many are like “Mellow Out”; cool beat, word bombardment, done. Beans is more Artist then Master of Ceremony and End It All is more art installation that you visit once and ponder then favorite album you play everyday.
