- Angles (Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip album)
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Angles Studio album by
dan le sac vs Scroobius PipReleased May 12, 2008 (UK)
September 2, 2008 (USA)Recorded November 2007 Genre Hip hop, Electronic Length 57:23 Label Sunday Best Recordings (UK)
Strange Famous Records (USA)Producer dan le sac, Yila
dan le sac vs Scroobius Pip chronologyAngles
(2008)The Logic of Chance
(2010)Singles from Angles - "Thou Shalt Always Kill"
Released: April 9, 2007 - "The Beat That My Heart Skipped"
Released: September 17, 2007 - "Look for the Woman"
Released: April 28, 2008 - "Letter from God to Man"
Released: July 28, 2008 - "Thou Shalt Always Kill (De La Edit)"
Released: January 26, 2009
Professional ratings Review scores Source Rating The Guardian [1] NME (7/10)[2] Okayplayer (88/100)[3] Pitchfork Media (0.2/10)[4] The Times [5] PopMatters.com [6] Drowned in Sound [7] Angles is the debut album by dan le sac vs Scroobius Pip, released on 12 May 2008.[8] It entered and peaked at #31 on the UK album chart.[9] Most of the album was recorded in a friend of Scroobius Pip's shed in Essex and in dan le sac's back bedroom.
Track listing
All lyrics written by Scroobius Pip, all music composed by dan le sac, except where noted.
Angles No. Title Length 1. "The Beat That My Heart Skipped" 5:13 2. "Development" 3:57 3. "Look for the Woman" 4:04 4. "Rapper's Battle" 3:27 5. "Tommy C" 4:26 6. "Fixed" (Music by dan le sac & Billy Squier) 3:28 7. "Angles" 3:57 8. "Letter from God to Man" (Music by dan le sac & Colin Greenwood, Edward O'Brien, Jonathan Greenwood, Phillip Selway, Thomas Yorke) 3:57 9. "Magician's Assistant" 4:39 10. "Back from Hell" 3:14 11. "Thou Shalt Always Kill" 5:18 12. "Waiting for the Beat to Kick In..." (also includes the hidden track "Reading My Dreams") 11:37
Also released was an iTunes Bonus Video Version with a shortened version of "Waiting for the Beat to Kick In...", and the track "Reading My Dreams" was used as a separate track.Angles (iTunes Bonus Video Version) No. Title Length 1. "The Beat That My Heart Skipped" 5:13 2. "Development" 3:57 3. "Look for the Woman" 4:04 4. "Rapper's Battle" 3:27 5. "Tommy C" 4:26 6. "Fixed" 3:28 7. "Angles" 3:57 8. "Letter from God to Man" 3:57 9. "Magician's Assistant" 4:39 10. "Back from Hell" 3:14 11. "Thou Shalt Always Kill" 5:18 12. "Waiting for the Beat to Kick In..." 6:53 13. "Reading My Dreams" 4:30 14. "First Time We Met Musik (Demo)" 4:12 15. "Thou Shalt Always Kill (Video)" 3:18 16. "Look for the Woman (Video)" 4:00
When the album was released in the USA by Strange Famous Records, it had a different tracklisting.Angles (US Version) No. Title Length 1. "The Beat That My Heart Skipped" 5:14 2. "Development" 3:57 3. "Thou Shalt Always Kill" 5:18 4. "Back from Hell" 3:14 5. "Look for the Woman" 4:04 6. "Fixed" 3:28 7. "Rappers Battle" 3:37 8. "Letter from God to Man" 3:57 9. "First Time We Met Musik" 4:12 10. "Tommy C" 4:26 11. "Angles" 3:57 12. "Magician's Assistant" 4:39 13. "Waiting for the Beat to Kick In..." 14:11 14. "Thou Shalt Always Kill (Video)" Production notes
- "Fixed" features a sample from Dizzee Rascal's "Fix Up, Look Sharp", which itself is a sample of Billy Squier's "Big Beat".
- "Letter from God to Man" features a sample from Radiohead's song "Planet Telex", a song featured on the album The Bends. It was also made available as a free download from the band's MySpace website on Christmas Day, 2007.
References
- ^ The Guardian review
- ^ NME review
- ^ Okayplayer review
- ^ Pitchfork Media review
- ^ The Times review
- ^ PopMatters.com review
- ^ Drowned in Sound review
- ^ "Sunday Best Releases". http://www.sundaybest.net/site/releases/detail.php?articleId=510.
- ^ "Album archive, May 24, 2008". The Official Charts Company. http://www.theofficialcharts.com/archive-chart/_/3/2008-05-24/.
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