Mayday!

Mayday!'s self-titled debut is one of this year's pleasant surprises. Plex's early production work for Miami groups like Algorithm and Spirit Agent were simple blue beats that sounded like bedroom soliloquies. In contrast, Mayday! is vivid and colorful, with sounds that range from the hard organ crush of "Watchin' Me" to the tinkling and echoing piano on "The Customer Is Always Right." (Plex hasn't completely abandoned his old style, however, as "Nothin'" demonstrates.) Meanwhile, Bernbiz's rhymes are tight and concise. They range from "Micro/Macro," where he addresses the so-called war on terrorism, to "Angles," where he lays out his philosophy: "Cats have gotten far but not that far, dog/I see it every day — ass, money, and stardom/But everybody's gotta beg, borrow, and rob/So I don't owe nobody shit, and I ain't paying for beats." In spite of the publicity that Cee-Lo's chorus on "Groundhog Day" lent them, Mayday!'s success is owed to Bernbiz and Plex alone.

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