Sole & The Skyrider Band
Sole, one of the founding members of the Anticon collective and a fundamental figure in the experimental hip hop movement, returns with his Skyrider Band on his most cohesive and dynamic project to date. Plastique is an album full of reflections on the postmodern mess that is the “me” generation.In contrast to the apocalyptic imagery of the first record, Plastique adopts the Jean Beaudrillard idea that “when the spectacle took over, man ceased to be man”. Sole bounces from the ironic to the iconoclastic, from the worldly to the deeply personal, and backed by a more sparse and deliberate delivery from Skyrider, showcasing the talents of all 3 musicians: Bud Berning (producer), John Wagner (drums), and William Ryan Fritch (multi-instrumentalist).
Sole has spent the last two years living in a cabin in the midst of the Coconino National Forest in Arizona with no mayor and no phone lines, just books and environmental canyon sprawl. This return to analog life inspired an album’s worth of interpersonal discovery and anti-ideology.
Canada’s Street Style Magazine