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The Family Sign

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Song	Lyrics	Save	Buy
PLAY QUEUE 1 My Key		save
PLAY QUEUE 2 The Last To Say		save
PLAY QUEUE 3 Became		save
PLAY QUEUE 4 Just For Show		save
PLAY QUEUE 5 She's Enough		save
PLAY QUEUE 6 Bad Bad Daddy		save
PLAY QUEUE 7 Millennium Dodo		save
PLAY QUEUE 8 Who I'll Never Be		save
PLAY QUEUE 9 I Don't Need Brighter Days		save
PLAY QUEUE 10 Ain't Nobody		save
PLAY QUEUE 11 Your Name Here		save
PLAY QUEUE 12 If You Can Save Me Now		save
PLAY QUEUE 13 Something So		save
PLAY QUEUE 14 My Notes		save

MOG Editorial Review

After two decades in the alt-rap game, it looks as though emcee Slug and producer Ant are finally growing up, and it makes for their best record in years. As its name implies, The Family Sign is centered around loved ones, whether it's family like his deceased father or the one that got away on the track "Just for Show." Throughout, Slug touches upon themes and ideas that normally get overlooked in hip-hop, making for a refreshing set of positive jams. While Slug's crisp delivery is enough to satisfy any indie hip-hop fan, Ant's production on The Family Sign manages to bring larger doses of rock and jazz than in the past, with guitars and organs dominating tracks more often than not. Some say that hip-hop is a young man's game at heart, but The Family Sign is proof enough that you can age gracefully if you do it right.
AMG Review of The Family Sign

David Jeffries
All Music Guide

Rapper Slug and producer Ant continue to evolve with their 2011 effort The Family Sign, a conceptual effort dealing with the family unit. No surprise that the duo that arguably invented emo-rap finds a lot of pain in family and growing up, and when Mom gets to “mourn for the touch of a punch” during “The Last to Say,” it’s downright devastating. Slug’s lyrics are equally vivid and blunt, and after all these years of delivering therapy session rhymes, he still continues to impress, giving up the stark reality like few others can. Still, the most interesting devices on the album are Ant’s subtle references to the “Minneapolis sound” that the duo grew up with. Electro percussion that recalls Prince and white-noise, gritty sounds that are Hüsker Dü-influenced add a bit of nostalgia and suburban hominess to the landscape, as if Slug’s lyrics were the domestic strife of the downstairs and Ant’s productions were the boombox bedroom escapism of upstairs, where new wave and Paisley Park offered a way out. In other words, knowing a bit about where this group literally came from helps a lot, and when you add the personal element of Slug chopping down his family tree, this effort may be too inward-looking for the newcomer. That said, anyone intrigued by the idea of emo-rap at its most introspective will find this a well-crafted and moving effort, while returning Atmosphere fans get the satisfying usual with some extra maturity and growth.