Ka, “Knighthood”"The quiet kept me inspired," boasts Ka on "Knighthood," and the song proves it. Ka, from Brownsville, Brooklyn, is a rapper-producer who thrives in silence and stillness. On his excellent new album, The Night's Gambit, as on his 2012 breakthrough Grief Pedigree, Ka raps in menacing sotta voce, in songs that unfurl over dark, spacious music. It's a sound that suits the subject matter: hard-boiled, hardscrabble tales of poverty and small-scale drug trafficking, delivered by a survivor — a man who, just barely, lived to tell. "Knighthood" is prime Ka. The wordplay is tightly stacked up, and the beat is like the story: beautifully bleak. Court Yard Hounds, “Amelita”The 2010 debut album by Court Yard Hounds — a.k.a. sisters Marty Maguire and Emily Robison, a.k.a. the Dixie Chicks who aren’t lead singer Natalie Maines — was a pleasant but tentative record. It sounded like the work of...
- 7/19/2013
- by Jody Rosen
- Vulture
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