Fantastic Damage

Infobox Album
Name = Fantastic Damage
Type = studio
Artist = El-P


Released = May 14 2002
Recorded = 2002
Genre = Hip hop
Length = 70:18
Label = Definitive Jux
DJX027
Producer = El-P
Reviews = *Allmusic rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:zqfibkh9aakq link]
*"Dusted Magazine" (favorable) [http://www.dustedmagazine.com/reviews/196 link]
*"Entertainment Weekly" (favorable) [http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,238411,00.html link]
*Pitchfork Media (8.9/10) [http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/17396/ElP_Fantastic_Damage link]
*PopMatters (favorable) [http://www.popmatters.com/music/reviews/e/elp-fantastic.shtml link]
*"Rolling Stone" rating|3.5|5 [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/elp/albums/album/321892/review/5946194/fantastic_damage link]
*"Stylus Magazine" (A) [http://www.stylusmagazine.com/review.php?ID=346 link]
*Tiny Mix Tapes rating|5|5 [http://www.tinymixtapes.com/musicreviews/e/el-p.htm link]
Last album = "El-P Presents Cannibal Oxtrumentals"
(2002)
This album = "Fantastic Damage"
(2002)
Next album = "High Water"
(2004)

"Fantastic Damage" is the first proper full-length solo album by Brooklyn, New York rapper and producer El-P, released on his own Definitive Jux label on May 14 2002. The tracks "Fantastic Damage", "Deep Space 9mm", and "The Nang, the Front, the Bush and the Shit" were featured in the El-P-scored graffiti film "Bomb the System". An instrumental version of the album, "Fandam Plus: Instrumentals, Remixes, Lyrics & Video", was released on 1 October 2002. This double disc release included all the instrumentals of "Fantastic Damage" on its first disc and three remixes, the "Fantastic Damage" lyrics, and video footage on its second disc.

Track listing

# "Fantastic Damage" – 3:22
# "Squeegee Man Shooting" – 4:24
# "Deep Space 9mm" – 3:47
# "Tuned Mass Damper" – 4:05
# "Dead Disnee" – 3:53
# "Delorean" – 5:33
#* Featuring Aesop Rock and Ill Bill
# "Truancy" – 5:04
# "The Nang, the Front, the Bush and the Shit" – 5:37
# "Accidents Don't Happen" – 4:50
#* Featuring Cage and Camu Tao
# "Stepfather Factory" – 4:11
# "T.O.J." – 4:32
# "Dr. Hellno and the Praying Mantus" – 4:39
#* Featuring Vast Aire
# "Lazerfaces' Warning" – 4:36
# "Innocent Leader" – 2:21
# "Constellation Funk" – 4:58
# "Blood" – 4:26
#* Featuring Mr. Lif and C-Rayz Walz

Personnel

*Artwork: Dan Ezra Lang
*Art direction: Dan Ezra Lang, El-P
*Mixing: Nasa, El-P
*Engineering: Nasa, El-P

Charts

References

External links

*myspace|elproducto|El-P
* [http://www.definitivejux.net Definitive Jux Official Site]