THE LOST AND FOUND

Atmosphere, the two man duo of Slug (Sean Daly) and Ant (Anthony Davis), are back and hittin’ hard, with their new album ‘When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Sh*t Gold’ (WLGYLYPTSG). I’ll be honest, I’ve always had a love/hate for Slug’s raps - mostly because of his weird rhyme schemes and constant coke references - but after listening to ‘God Loves Ugly,’ (2003) it was his story-telling ability that changed my mind and left me wanting more. So with that said, when I first gave this CD a listen a lot of the tracks seemed contrived; almost as though Slug wrote the raps first, then found the beats for them later. However, after listening to this album for about two weeks straight his lyrics really started to take form and I found that there was more to the songs than what appeared on the surface.

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