Cassette Review // Pasquale "Chadiohead 2" (Hand'Solo Records)
"Chadiohead 2" is the second installment in a series of three where rapper Pasquale takes lyrics from a previous album (in this case the 2007 album "Underestimated Raindrops") and puts them over loops of samples from the band Radiohead. This is the type of thing that I can recognize because on the first song you can tell it's a guitar riff being looped behind the rapping, but even if you don't like Radiohead this makes for a nice sort of rock/rap hybrid sound as well.
The second song- "Sounddrifts"- can pick up static at the end while "Whose Army's Opressed Together?" has this almost static over the chorus to where it sounds like two songs at once. If I was listening to this digitally, I would've thought that- during the chorus- another window opened on my laptop and started playing a different song, which actually works here though because that sound is likely from Radiohead which is a different band.
One of the awkward conversations people might not want to have about this cassette is the song "Sail Racists to the Moon". In the song, it is mentioned that it is 2005- which means this was twenty years ago and yet somehow racism only seems to have gotten worse in the United States. The song is about killing racists and has the line: "Those people are stupid / Their brain ain't right", which I fully agree with. If you see someone different from you and automatically assume that those differences make *you* better then, yes, your brain is broken and cannot be fixed.
Even if you're not the biggest fan of Radiohead, you should still be able to recognize that "Left to Dry" has those chords from "High & Dry" while "Sickest Karma" is samplying "Karma Police". This makes the whole cassette feel like it's two things at once, but when they're blended together it works. I wish more rappers would do this and put their verses over Pearl Jam or Weezer or something. But right now, if all we have is Chadiohead at least we have Chadiohead.
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