Fight With Tools - Flobots

Flobots for anyone who don't know are described as a hip hop group from Colorado America. However some of their music ranges from fast rapping to quite slow almost talking through their songs. All of their songs have a very political message as well as it seem in most their main aim is getting their lyrics across rather then thinking about the music they are making, in some ways this makes the songs better, almost rawer than if they had put their all into making the songs sound great. The first song is only one minute and twenty seconds long. A fine example of the talking in their songs rather than singing or rapping, its got violins behind it and it sounds ...  Read the complete review

Fight with Tools Flobots 2008 (first released 2007) Flobots are perhaps one of the most exciting bands to have 'broken through' in America in recent years. I say broken through as they seem to have been around for some 8 years yet until last year I had never heard of them and then they released the single 'Handlebars' and I was instantly hooked. Who are they? Jonny 5 is the main MC Brer Rabbit is also an MC and they work together Mackenzie Roberts plays Viola Andy Guerrero, Guitar Jesse Walker, Bass Joe Ferrone, trumpet player (and some trumpet player I have to say) Kenny Ortiz, ...  Read the complete review

'Fight With Tools' is the third LP from US hip-hop outfit the 'Flobots'. Mixing traditional brass and string instruments with heavily political lyrics, the Colorado based band have created a sound which is comparable to Linkin Park crossed with the Gorillaz. The thirteen track album opens with 'There's a War Going On For Your Mind', which is a short spoken piece reminiscent of Gil Scott-Heron's 1970's classic 'The Revolution Will Not Be Televised'. It sets the political tone for the remainder of the album - which can actually feel a little preachy at times. Track two, entitled 'Mayday!!!' is a lengthy number featuring heavy use of the ...  Read the complete review