Prefuse 73

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Reviews

Prefuse 73: Everything She Touched Turned Ampexian

By Alan Ranta

Heron's best work since One Word Extinguisher is a true album experience, meant to be played start to finish in one uninterrupted session for maximum enjoyment. [30 April 2009]

Prefuse 73: Preparations

By Nate Dorr

It's going to take more than a simple return to the clearer song forms of One Word Extinguisher to get anyone all that excited at this point. [25 October 2007]

Prefuse 73: Reads the Books EP

By Stephen Stirling

It reads like a tale of two warriors who couldn't quite win the big battle, and are furiously polishing their tarnished armor to do battle again. [22 September 2005]

Prefuse 73: Surrounded by Silence

By Pierre Hamilton

Prefuse 73 loses the magical touch, filling out this album's incoherent and gaping holes with guest appearances. [22 July 2005]

Prefuse 73: One Word Extinguisher

By David Morris

Rarely has this sort of oceanism held sway through an entire hip-hop album, but on One Word Extinguisher this semidetached perspective really gets the space it needs to stretch its legs, and to envelope the listener in its surreal urbanism.

[17 July 2003]

Prefuse 73: The ‘92 vs ‘02 Collection

By Adam Dlugacz

The ‘92 vs ‘02 Collection is Prefuse 73 at his best sewing together hip-hop and ambient techno while creating a sound positively his own.

[11 July 2002]

Prefuse 73: Vocal Studies + Uprock Narratives

By Shan Fowler

Here is what Scott Herren, aka Prefuse 73, says about rappers: “I like to use MCs as another layer of music. You don’t have to get the heavy load of what an MC’s saying that might piss you off, some sort of bullshit you don’t wanna hear about.”

[10 July 2001]