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RoadKillOvercoat | 
 enlarge | Artist: Busdriver
Label: Epitaph / Ada
Category: Music
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Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 115992
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 86810
UPC: 045778681020
EAN: 0045778681020
ASIN: B000LPR4YE
Release Date: January 30, 2007
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| Tracks:
| • | Casting Agent And Cowgirls | | • | Less Yes's. More No's | | • | Kill Your Employer (Recreational Paranoia Is The Sport Of Now) | | • | Ethereal Driftwood | | • | Secret Skin | | • | Sun Showers | | • | Go Slow | | • | Troglodyte Wins, The | | • | Pompous Posies! Your Party's No Fun | | • | (Bloody Paw On The) Kill Floor | | • | Mr. Mistakes | | • | Dream Catcher's Mitt |
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Amazon.com
Regan Farquhar has steadily climbed the ranks of underground hip-hop's thesaurus-toting klatch since the turn of the millennium, and RoadKillOvercoat only cements his position as both the most charismatic and the most prolific of the sub-genre's loquacious purveyors. Having released numerous singles and almost annual full-lengths on a number of labels since 2000, Farquhar (a.k.a. Busdriver) joins SoCal's formidable Epitaph Records with RoadKillOvercoat. Opener "Casting Agents and Cowgirls" sets the tone, Busdriver's rapid-fire verses bolstered by instrumental steroid-infusions from production partners DJ Nobody and Boom-Bip. Between the thick slabs of overcrowded rhyme that mark Busdriver's modus operandi, RoadKillOvercoat throws listeners a meaty bone in the form of the surprisingly melodic choruses ("Less Yes's, More No's," "Mr. Mistake," lead single "Kill Your Employer") that stud more than half of these tracks. Lyrically, Busdriver's attention fluctuates between a steady diet of wordy near-nonsense ("The Troglodyte Wins") and poser-smashing machismo ("Pompous Posies! Your Party's No Fun!"), but he knows his audience well, and the addition of Nobody and Boom-Bip adds a welcome, bumping sheen to the verbal hailstorm. In all, this is well-read rap that skates the line between density and opaqueness with more subtle skill than its over-the-top appearances let on. --Jason Kirk
Album Description
Busdriver is that rare artist who brings so much flair and originality to his music that he's transformed a whole genre with his intricate assault of complex rhymes and vocal delivery. On this release, he delivers synth-laden, post-techno hooks and indie-pop moves provided by underground heroes, Boom Bip and DJ Nobody. He strings together pop culture reference points, cryptic wordplay, and gallant wit, with a wide musical palette of pop grandeur, psychedelic hip-hop, and minimal beats, capturing listeners with his most undeniably catchy release yet.
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Something Different From Busdriver June 9, 2008
This album is not like other busdriver albums - but then again, no two busdriver albums are the same. This one features more melody and less frenetic rap than most of his recordings. The single Sun Showers stands out as a great song, but unfortunately it is unique on this album. The rest of the songs feature more rapping and less singing, but still sit somewhere on the fence between genres. This album is catchy and full of intelligent wordplay, but it is too short to fully satisfy - I think it could use one more track that busdriver sings on - or maybe it's just that I can't get over SunShowers.
 The Most Inconsistent Artist I've Ever Heard... May 8, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Busdriver is a total anomaly... He's not BAD, per se, just not consistently good. He's got skill, imagination, vocabulary, and probably an extreme case of Attention Deficit Disorder. What he doesn't have: patience(refer to ADD... his raps are always frenzied), rhythm (his voice alternates in pace completely independent of the backing track most of the time), and any form of coherent sound.
I don't dislike the better thought-out songs, or alternately maybe I got on the bandwagon late; I was seduced by Casting Agents and Cowgirls, the most pop-accessible song he's ever done, apparently. There are six more albums, which all wander all over the place. A record will have some good songs, some completely unlistenable tracks of pure noise, and a lot of mediocre material that wouldn't even serve as filler or B-side fodder for a more consistent artist.
Busdriver's niche would seem to be the infinitesimally small genre of "avant-garde hip hop", in which I have never found an artist to reside. He's got very eclectic friends providing beats and guest raps, it's just not anything that most people are accustomed to calling music. If I had to sum Busdriver up in a sentence, it would be: Saul Williams wannabe with half the talent.
Subtitle + Subtle October 11, 2007
Regan Farquhar aka Busdriver, L.A.'s non-hip-hop/hip-hopper, returns with his first stab at the semi-majors - a stab indeed. He's odder than ever, his oft-relayed frustrations of the rap game and personal issues (i.e. "Cuz before we met you thought that hoodrats lay eggs"/"Last year I was passing out Green Party leaflets while you're at the chalet on ski trips.") matched by three-dollar bill Nobody's production, Daddy Kev and Boom Bip's mixing and a cameo by CocoRosie's Bianca Casady ("Go Slow"). Be it stuttering synthpop ("Sun Shower"), neo-crunk (("Bloody Paw on the) Kill Floor"), jock-jam beats ("Kill Your Employer (Recreational Paranoia Is the Sport of Now") or clicking folk ("Dream Catcher's Mitt"), Farquhar can take it, spitting with the precision of a world record holding tongue-twisting auctioneer. And, really, isn't anyone who can use the word polyglot and rap "hemorrhages with a carbonated fizz" probably worth a piece of your day?
Quantum Leap Forward August 18, 2007
The last Busdriver I've heard was "Temporary Forever", which, while impressive, kind of was less than spectacular DJ work, and sounded somewhat like an updated Fuschnickens album. This latest release caught me by surprise...it's (thankfully) far from being catchy, but is dense, funky and uncompromising, and is sure to stand up to many repeat listenings. Simply, he is in his own world now. His lyrics are dopier-than-thou, with that fast delivery he's seemed to have cribbed from the above Fu. He's much better than that group, however, as the DJ work on this album is far more sophisticated than on his previous above-mentioned album. Stellar work - he's really more impressive than Outkast is right now, and the torch of hip-hop is born forward, despite all odds.
Not his best work but he still is the best.................... March 9, 2007
Roadkill Overcoat let me down because I was expecting Temporary Forever. I guess I expect Temporary Forever every time Busdriver comes out. But let it be known this is still the lyrical genius with a style second to none with the best producers hip hop underground has to offer.
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