Gainesville, Florida Hip-Hop four-piece CYNE 's newest record 'Pretty Dark Things' was one of the more creative Rap albums of the year. You might have noticed when I threw a couple of cuts from the disc on our ever-suffering podcast a while back. The album's out right now on CD and in digital formats Portland, Oregon-based indie Home Tapes, but a double vinyl set is due from the label on N...
- MUSIC REVIEWS"Just Say No" opens Pretty Dark Things with insistence and passion, the emcees and producers performing with urgency. Before a minute has elapsed, however, everything comes to a halt as an angry voice shouts that the underground is stagnant while an admonition against listening to Nelly is leveled at "little girls." If these guys seriously want change, they should realize th...
Gainesville, Florida Hip-Hop four-piece CYNE 's newest record 'Pretty Dark Things' was one of the more creative Rap albums of the year. You might have noticed when I threw a couple of cuts from the disc on our ever-suffering podcast a while back. The album's out right now on CD and in digital formats Portland, Oregon-based indie Home Tapes, but a double vinyl set is due from the label on N...
- MUSIC REVIEWS"Just Say No" opens Pretty Dark Things with insistence and passion, the emcees and producers performing with urgency. Before a minute has elapsed, however, everything comes to a halt as an angry voice shouts that the underground is stagnant while an admonition against listening to Nelly is leveled at "little girls." If these guys seriously want change, they should realize th...
CYNE (Cultivating Your New Experience) formed in the summer of 2001, in the swamps of Gainesville, Florida. CYNE is composed of emcees Akin and Cise Star, and producers Speck and Enoch. Cise Star has done a bunch of work with my favorite producer of the moment Nujabes. Their latest album is Pretty Dirty Things (awesome movie too if you have seen it) and its some great work. The record spans sev...