Anti-Pop Consortium - Florescent Black

Released: 27/09/2009 Big Dada

At the dawn of the decade, Anti-Pop Consortium's debut on Warp Records saw them become standard-bearers for forward-thinking hip-hop. Returning after a six-year hiatus, the quartet of Beans, Earl Blaize, High Priest, and M. Sayyid have accumulated enough inspiration to deliver what could prove to be another game-changer. For more information visit: http://www.myspace.com/antipopny Buy: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B002GYS1EU?ie=UTF8&tag=cultur00-21&linkCode=as2&ca…

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Guardian“Not yet reviewed”

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The Independent“Not yet reviewed”

Uncut“Not yet reviewed”

90%

allmusic“Easily their best record...” None of this is going to sell enough records to bother Jay-Z, and a track or two veer too close to MF Doom for comfort, but Fluorescent Black is easily one of the best rap records of the year...

MusicOMH“Not yet reviewed”

Financial Times“Not yet reviewed”

70 %

Pitchfork“It seems silly to ponder Anti-Pop Consortium's place in hip hop...” The idea of an Anti-Pop greatest hits may be anathema-- at least philosophically-- but the moments when they push the genre's boundaries, rather than just fan expectations, are the parts of the group's catalog that will endure...

80 %

Drowned In Sound“What really impresses is how complete all of this sounds...” Fluorescent Black finds Anti-Pop Consortium standing up to recent work by the old guard and young pretenders alike, giving a firm middle finger and a knowing grin...

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Recorded music

88%	Richard Hawley - Standing At The Sky's Edge
85%	Jack White - Blunderbuss
85%	Xiu Xiu - Always
82%	Father John Misty - Fear Fun
79%	The Twilight Sad - No One Can Ever Know
79%	Damien Jurado - Maraqopa
78%	Hospitality - Hospitality
74%	Lotus Plaza - Spooky Action At A Distance
74%	Beach House - Bloom
74%	Amadou & Mariam - Folila
73%	Bowerbirds - The Clearing
73%	Best Coast - The Only Place
72%	The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Aufheben
71%	Dirty Three - Toward The Low Sun
70%	Pond - Beard Wives Denim

Cinema

100%	La Grande Illusion
86%	Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
81%	The Cabin in the Woods
78%	Avengers Assemble
76%	Monsieur Lazhar
76%	Marley
75%	Le Havre
75%	Corpo Celeste
74%	The Kid With a Bike
73%	Goodbye First Love
73%	North Sea Texas
73%	Bill Cunningham New York
73%	Breathing
71%	Into the Abyss: A Tale of Death, A Tale of Life
68%	The Hunger Games

Books

93%	Nick Harkaway - Angelmaker
90%	Peter Carey - The Chemistry of Tears
90%	Grace McCleen - The Land of Decoration
90%	Iain Banks - Stonemouth
83%	Claude Lanzmann - The Patagonian Hare
81%	HHhH - Laurent Binet
80%	Hilary Mantel - Bring up the Bodies
76%	Andrew Motion - Silver
76%	Nadine Gordimer - No Time Like the Present
75%	Toni Morrison - Home
73%	Charlotte Rogan - The Lifeboat
73%	Irvine Welsh - Skagboys
72%	Greg Baxter - The Apartment

Exhibitions

85%	Miró: Sculptor
76%	Yayoi Kusama
76%	Song Dong - Waste Not
75%	Patrick Keiller: The Robinson Institute
75%	Johan Zoffany RA: Society Observed
72%	Brains: The Mind As Matter
71%	The Wild, the Beautiful and the Damned
67%	Remote Control
64%	Alighiero Boetti - Game Plan
55%	Damien Hirst
45%	Turner Inspired: In the Light of Claude

Theatre
Opera & Dance

86%	Singin' in the Rain
80%	Moon on a Rainbow Shawl
80%	A Slow Air
72%	The Real Thing
70%	Mary Shelley
25%	Babel

75%	A Streetcar Named Desire
72%	English Touring Opera - Eugene Onegin
63%	Madam Butterfly