1 CENT CD: Eyedea & Abilities 'By the Throat' PA hiphop

Condition of CD:   Mint Condition 2009 album!  Parental Advisory Warning!

After a five year break exploring new sounds and building their personal repertoires, Eyedea & Abilities return with the follow up to their 2004 critically acclaimed sophomore album "E&A". With biting guitars, fuzzy keyboards, melodic choruses, and some of their most intricate turntable work to date, "By The Throat" cuts right to the vein and advances far beyond the duo's battle tested history (winners of HBO Blaze Battle, Rocksteady, Scribble Jam and the DMC's). Confirmed for the 2009 Rock The Bells Tour, and a headlining tour this September.

One review reads 'If you approach this album from the perspective of punk, then I think you will be quite happy with it. If you approach from the perspective of the previous albums, you will probably be disappointed. Eyedea is doing his own thing here more in the vain of punk. All previous albums be damned. His lyrical attack and intensity in this album is excellent. And it is short but again from a punk perspective, it is quite normal to have short albums. The singing in some of the songs is really not what anybody was expecting, but from a punk perspective it fits in perfectly. How many punk bands had singers that weren't quite up to par but their message and intensity is what really counted? Eyedea could have easily brought in somebody else to sing or fixed it up with software. But he didn't. He wanted that raw unpolished sound which fits perfectly with the rest of the album. Abilities did a tremendous job with the beats in this album. He had to be pushed way out of his comfort zone and he succeeded. You can look at it as a short album or you can look at as an album that doesn't waste your time. This album is raw and quick like a sucker punch in the gut. I didn't see it coming, but I hope this is the start of something rather than a one time thing.

Listen to it at least twice. Once completely focusing on Eyedea and once completely focusing on Abilities. It's only 29 minutes, right?

If you haven't checked out the music video for Junk then I highly suggest you do. You get a much better feel for what they were trying to create with this album. '.