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The Beastie Boys 'To The 5 Boroughs'
The Beastie Boys - the premier architects of rap-rock and some of the most inventive practitioners of hip-hop - return after six years with 'To The 5 Boroughs'. Hear it here.
Leaving both their sometime misogyny and more recent experimentalism well behind them Mike D, Ad Rock and MCA are back with their first album in six years and it's an astonishing return to form.
From the pure party hip-hop of 'Ch-Check It Out' and 'Shazam!' to the spitting, Bush-baiting political invective of 'That's It That's All' and 'Time To Build', this is a record that touches on every high point of The Beastie Boys style history. Party imperative successfully tempered by Buddhist wisdom? Who'd of thought it?
Elsewhere, the deeply affecting 'An Open Letter To NYC' shows that the recent history of their beloved New York has not been lost on the trio, as well as that hip-hop can be heartbreaking.
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