Animals

"Dozens of recorded efforts combining hip-hop and jazz have appeared over the last three decades. Overall's take is quite intimate and personal, as confessional as it is culturally analytical and emotionally resonant. Given that his lyrics frame individual struggles as microcosms of collective struggle, he needed to discover his own method for combining the musics he loves in depicting his inner process in sound. To that end, Overall's constructions serve to complement, buoy, and accentuate live instrumentation and improvisation. Ultimately, Animals is a compelling conversation between the creator and his psyche, his musicians, and listeners".

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"The Seattle drummer, rapper and producer flits between drum kit and electronica, ferocity to tranquillity, on his third studio album".

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"Every collaborator and every featured artist on every song on drummer/percussionist/rapper/singer/producer Kassa Overall's latest album, Animals, is equally listed as a composer. He's certainly the artist who crafts all these elements together, but it's astounding how well these equal parts all mold into a clearly crafted work that defies clear genre. Animals is doing a lot, and it's doing it very wel".