Mouse & The Mask

Terrific album.Mf doom is smooth with an intricate rapping style.The album cover and sleeve is also pretty cool.

What can I say...DOOM, not to be confused with nobody,Especially, since the flows he used was so nutty,Never too woozy to go study, crews got no clues, like old cruddy,Officer McGillicuddyWatch your six, he got a lot of more tricks,Lyrics, bricks, on sticks sure got raw-nytics,It's a gift, don't get shot for kicks,With the same slick used to plot sig. figs. with,Spotted at a chick flick, holding hands,The other one on his swollen glands, a golden chance,That's why he kept them holes in his pants,Rolling in a old van, is what he told his stolen fans,Is that you? True. Matched from hat to shoe,Snafu, snatch any brew, LaBatt's Blue,Black Jew like that's new, patch me through,No latch attached, skat shoo, catch twenty-two!Track 10 Crosshairs

I hate to sound like a typical backpacker fan-boy but this album is near on perfect!Doom and Dangermouse are a true HipHop heads dream combination. What sounds like it should work on paper sounds even better on wax!Lyrically Doom remains in another class to most MCs. His rhymes are rich with obscure references, humour and his trademark incredible wordplay.Dangermouse creates the perfect backdrop for this lyrical perfection.The only bit I miss out on as a fan from the UK is all the 'adult swim' interludes as I'm not familiar with the show. However they are funny in their own right and don't detract from the album even if you don't know the characters.

saw this ltd package when it came out..should have bought it, but didn't, regretted it ever since, but am delighted to finally have one in my posession, great album, unique packaging, all good.

Banging!!

There's a lot to like about this album - but a lot to forget too. If you're looking at this page, no doubt you know who the two perpetrators are... MF Doom, arguably the most original and consistently offbeat rapper of recent years, and Danger Mouse, producer responsible for the lawsuit-attracting Jay Z / Beatles mash up known as the 'Grey Album'. The third element to The Mouse And The Mask is the addition of characters from the late-night American cartoon show Adult Swim. The skits, which run throughout the album and appear on most songs in one form or another, are funny at first but quickly become grating. Maybe a listener more familiar with the Adult Swim characters would appreciate them more, but I found myself skipping them after the first hearing.As for the music itself, Danger provides a palette of bouncy, occasionally corny samples and keyboard swirls that neatly offset Doom's regulated, deadpan rapping style. Where this works - on tracks such as 'El Chupa Nibre', ' Space Hoes', the Ghostface-guested 'The Mask' and 'Sofa King' - it comes off brilliantly. Unfortunately, some of the tracks just sound too poppy; despite a nicely crooned chorus from Cee-Lo Brown, 'Bizzie Box' is a dull and overly twee number, while a couple of other tracks are just plain boring. Dm's beats, in this project among others, tend towards the repetetive, and this happens too often on this album.Still its a worthwhile album because, even on the less interesting songs, Doom enlivens proceedings with his ridiculous wordplay. Disses towards other MCs that are almost subliminal - "They raps ain't got no gift like a lonely Christmas"; "Digest a group and sell the poop on eBay" - bump up against references to Janeane Garofalo, "Superfly" Jimmy Snuka and "those dudes in red shirts off Star Trek". Delivered in Doom's trademark quotidian, metered sentences and with his drawling patois, the listener hangs onto ever word, wondering just how the masked supervillain can rhyme "Gats is borin'" with "vats of urine" and get away with it.

Fast delievery, item as expected

Amazing albumBUY FROM LEX RECORDS WEBSITEYou can get this Deluxe LP on the label's website cheaper than here. Give your money to the makers, not the middle man.Record is a must have. Doom. Danger. What else.Check Dangermouse and Jemini too......all doom projects......