Oddjobs - The Shopkeeper's Wife

As consummate an album as Drums was (and is), The Shopkeeper's Wife is nothing less than Oddjobs plunging into the deep end. The deep end of abstract lyricism. The deep end of exploratory music-making. The deep end, even, of its own enlarging psyche. This six-song EP is the vanguard of hip-hop, rap as brain food. Rap as soul extension. Five years earlier, Dj Shadow had pointedly posed the challenge "What Does Your Soul Look LikeNULL" Whether intended rhetorically or not, The Shopkeeper's Wife is a brilliant reply to the question. Read More