Title: Unexpectedly Outstanding
Review: (these are my knee-jerk thoughts after one listen - a lengthier review will be on jambase.com in late December 2007)From the first track, the album drips with a feel-good retro-70s beat that drives the rest of the disc. Vocalist Speech continues his politically-aware lyricism without resorting to outright preaching, lending the album the wisdom that arrives only with maturity. Since the Last Time may not have the chart-climbing hit that brought Three Years into public consciousness twelve years ago, but taken as a whole, the latest effort compares favorably from start to finish.Speech and Arrested Development have aged remarkably well, and seem more determined not to save the world, but rather improve upon it slightly, one listener at a time. You don't have to be a fan of AD or of hip-hop to find the beauty in this release.
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