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Cypress Hill Elephants on Acid Free Download Elephants on Acid cypress hill elephants on acid free download Elephants on Acid. Elephants on Acid ( English for elephants on LSD ) is the ninth studio album by the US rap group Cypress Hill . It was released on September 28, 2018 and is the band's first release on the BMG Rights Management label and the first studio album since 2010. contents. production. Elephants on Acid , like most of the group's previous albums, was produced entirely by band member DJ Muggs . Cover design. The album cover is in dark blue-green and gray tones and shows the Hindu god Ganesha , who owns an elephant's head and holds spears, a skull and other objects in his hands. At the top right there are the white writing Cypress Hill and Elephants on Acid . Guest Posts. In addition to Cypress Hill, other artists are represented on eight songs on the album. The singer Brevi is involved in the songs Oh Na Na , Reefer Man , Crazy and Stairway to Heaven . The Egyptian musicians Sadat and Alaa Fifty can be heard on Band of Gypsies , while the rapper Sick Jacken has a guest appearance in Locos . In addition, the pieces Jesus Was a Stoner and Blood on My Hands Again are collaborations with the singer Gonjasufi . Track list. # title Guest Posts producer length 1 Tusko (intro) DJ Muggs 0:48 2 Band of Gypsies Sadat and Alaa Fifty DJ Muggs 3:49 3 Put Em in the Ground DJ Muggs 2:21 4th Satao (interval) DJ Muggs 0:29 5 Jesus Was a Stoner Gonjasufi DJ Muggs 3:25 6th Pass the knife DJ Muggs 3:37 7th LSD (interval) DJ Muggs 0:37 8th Oh well Brevi DJ Muggs 2:57 9 Holy Mountain (interval) DJ Muggs 1:15 10 Locos Sick jackets DJ Muggs 3:18 11 Falling down DJ Muggs 2:20 12 Elephant Acid (Interlude) DJ Muggs 0:52 13 Insane first floor DJ Muggs 1:23 14th The 5th Angel (Instrumental) DJ Muggs 2:01 15th Warlord DJ Muggs 3:17 16 Reefer Man Brevi DJ Muggs 3:22 17th Thru the Rabbit Hole (Interlude) DJ Muggs 1:54 18th Crazy Brevi DJ Muggs 2:52 19th Muggs Is Dead DJ Muggs 2:11 20th Blood on My Hands Again Gonjasufi DJ Muggs 3:20 21st Stairway to Heaven Brevi DJ Muggs 5:41. Chart successes and singles. Elephants on Acid entered the German album charts at number 27 on October 5, 2018 and stayed in the top 100 for three weeks. As the first single already in 2017, the song appeared Reefer Man as part of the soundtrack to the movie Grow House . Shortly before the album was released, the band of Gypsies , Muggs Is Dead , Crazy and Locos were released . All songs could not be placed in the charts. reception. Professional reviews Average rating source rating Metacritic 75% More reviews source rating laut.de Juice allmusic. Elephants on Acid received mostly positive reviews from critics. The Metacritic site calculated an average of 75% from eleven reviews from English-language media. From laut.de the album four out of a possible five points received. The reviewer Dominik Lippe thinks that "B-Real and Sen Dog still complement each other excellently vocally" and that DJ Muggs get "the most far-reaching development opportunities", which has a positive effect on the production. Cypress Hill would create "their own heaven on earth" with the album. Vincent Lindig from Juice magazine rated Elephants on Acid three out of a possible six crowns. It seems “like a collection of sketches and skits that you could later condense into a crisp album.” The “versatility of DJ Muggs' productions and the routine delivery of the MCs are positively emphasized.” However, “the really catchy, melodic hooks were missing ", Whereby" less sound experiments "would have been desirable. Elephants on Acid. Thirty years into any music career, the pressure is generally off. Cypress Hill, active since 1988 and best known for their weed-friendly gangsta rap hits from the '90s, could easily rewrite and revisit the ideas that made them famous for the rest of their days and fans would delight in the familiarity. Certainly, Elephants on Acid, Cypress Hill's ninth studio album and first since 2010's Rise Up, is full of their trademarks -- hits from the bong, puffed-up bravado, and ominously creepy flows or sunny stoned soliloquies. Less expected is a creative rebirth from a cartoonish crew that could rest on their past accomplishments and enjoy life as a legacy act. Elephants on Acid is just that, however, a deeply imaginative and risky set of new material from a group of old heads still interested in pushing their craft to new places. The 21-track album is the first collection produced by DJ Muggs since 2004's 'Til Death Do Us Part. Muggs' signature siren squalls and booming bass have morphed into a drifting, psychedelic treasure chest here, with trippy beats meeting multiple instrumental interludes. Some sessions for the album took place in Egypt, where Muggs not only hired street performers to play sitar, oud, flute, and other live instruments, but also worked with Egyptian pop vocalists Sadat and Alaa Fifty Cent who sing the chorus for single "Band of Gypsies." B Real's wheezing rhymes here are standard, but the backdrop of searing guitar solos and hazy, loping percussion put a psychedelic filter on the song informed by both the country where it was recorded and a heavy classic rock influence. Adventurous production on the cloudy, organ-heavy "Jesus Was a Stoner" and the horror-movie-soundtrack-anxiety of "Pass the Knife" are eons ahead of the frantic stoner rap the group made their name on. Repeat listens locate Muggs at the core of the album's creative push. He built the tracks here mostly from scratch, using a single Hiroshima sample and otherwise working with other musicians or playing all of the instruments himself, resampling his own work until it sounded like the worn-out vinyl sources he grew up working with. Elephants on Acid breaks new ground for Cypress Hill, but they don't commit entirely to an artistic about face. Pressure cooker tracks like "Put Em in the Ground" and "Locos" split the difference between Muggs' sonic exploration and the group's time-tested approach. There's a cheese factor here, as well. Formulaic romps like "Crazy" and "Through the Rabbit Hole" are pandering, cobbled together from tired big beats and too-stoned lyrics. They aim for the zany energy of the group's glory days but land closer to Insane Clown Posse levels of mediocrity. Ultimately, superfans might be polarized by the experimental musings of Elephants on Acid, but those with some distance will find this curiously assembled collection pleasantly puzzling in its layers of trippy appeal. Something this unexpected from such an established act can't help but feel refreshing. Elephants on Acid. Purchase and download this album in a wide variety of formats depending on your needs. Buy the album Starting at $9.99. Eight years have passed since the Californians of Cypress Hill’s last album yet the band are still all over the scene, both with solo projects and collaborations. Cypress Hill’s energy on stage is unparalleled, which guarantees them a place at most festivals around the world. The promise of this new album, “Elephants on Acid”, is primarily based on the return of DJ Muggs, their brilliant producer, who is picking up right where he left off, between sixties psychedelics, blazing breakbeats and smoky mysticism. Just like on the very detailed gothic album cover, Muggs unearths a monster buried deep underground and resurrects the legend of “Temple of Boom”, the band’s labyrinth album released in 1995. Between drugs and spirituality, B-Real, the main rapper, reinterprets Cypress Hill’s rather dark repertoire, halfway between Los Angeles Latino culture and hallucinating fantasy à la H.P. Lovecraft. With a few more recreational tracks like “Crazy” or “Oh Na Na”, which make the group sound like a mutant gypsy marching band, Cypress Hill are revitalised, though slightly removed from the saturated guitars of their earlier releases. Ending on “Stairway To Heaven” which is reminiscent of the ethereal soul of Portishead or Massive Attack, “Elephants on Acid” is a multi-layered journey around the mind, in which listeners can both lose and find themselves. © Aurélien Chapuis/Qobuz. Elephants on Acid. Copy the following link to share it. You are currently listening to samples. Listen to over 70 million songs with an unlimited streaming plan. Listen to this album and more than 70 million songs with your unlimited streaming plans. 1 month free, then $14.99/ month. Cypress Hill, Composer, MainArtist - Muggs, Composer - Stephen Ferlazzo, Keyboards. © 2018 Cypress Hill Music under exclusive license to BMG Rights Management GmbH ℗ 2018 Cypress Hill Music under exclusive license to BMG Rights Management GmbH. Cypress Hill, Composer, MainArtist - Muggs, Composer - B-Real, Vocals, Writer - Hideki Ishima, Composer - Yoko Nomura, Composer - Sen Dog, Vocals, Writer - Fred Wreck, Mixing Engineer - Sam Kingston, Recording Engineer. © 2018 Cypress Hill Music under exclusive license to BMG Rights Management GmbH ℗ 2018 Cypress Hill Music under exclusive license to BMG Rights Management GmbH. Cypress Hill, Composer, MainArtist - Muggs, Composer, Mixing Engineer - B-Real, Writer - Sen Dog, Writer - Fred Wreck, Mixing Engineer - Freddie Gibbs, Writer - Sam Kingston, Recording Engineer. © 2018 Cypress Hill Music under exclusive license to BMG Rights Management GmbH ℗ 2018 Cypress Hill Music under exclusive license to BMG Rights Management GmbH. Cypress Hill, Composer, MainArtist - Muggs, Composer. © 2018 Cypress Hill Music under exclusive license to BMG Rights Management GmbH ℗ 2018 Cypress Hill Music under exclusive license to BMG Rights Management GmbH.
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