{"id":42152,"date":"2016-03-02T15:58:23","date_gmt":"2016-03-02T21:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/?p=42152"},"modified":"2016-03-02T19:04:19","modified_gmt":"2016-03-03T01:04:19","slug":"saul-williams-martyr-loser-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/2016\/03\/02\/saul-williams-martyr-loser-king\/","title":{"rendered":"Saul Williams: Martyr Loser King"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright wp-image-42153\" src=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Saul-Williams_Martyr-Loser-King-cover.jpg?fit=300%2C300\" alt=\"Saul-Williams_Martyr-Loser-King-cover\" width=\"297\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Saul-Williams_Martyr-Loser-King-cover.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Saul-Williams_Martyr-Loser-King-cover-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Saul-Williams_Martyr-Loser-King-cover-125x125.jpg 125w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 297px) 100vw, 297px\" \/>Saul Williams&#8217; <em>Martyr Loser King<\/em> plays unlike any other hip-hop album out there. The album was released in late January on Fader, a label that has released his former works as well as releases from Matt and Kim and Neon Indian. Songs like \u201cGroundwork,\u201d \u201cHorn of the Clock-Bite,\u201d and \u201cDown For Some Ignorance\u201d rely less on setting a beat to before introducing the lyrics. This move is ambitious, but it makes the percussion that much more impactful when it&#8217;s\u00a0introduced. When songs are heavily drum based, the beat is complex enough to segregate it from the average hip-hop rhythm, but still retains that repetitive nature that encourages the listener to groove.<\/p>\n<p>The lyrics are meaningful and tell a powerful narrative about oppression in a multitude of different voices. The singing and rapping is emphasized with a harsh, concerned tone that is sometimes augmented by a vocoder, and, at some points, has a familiar\u00a0a Thom Yorkian whine, giving every song a personality that better represents the message being delivered. Saul Williams&#8217; <em>Martyr Loser King<\/em> does well in presenting every element artfully using world, hip-hop, and experimental influences.<br \/>\n<b><br \/>\nRecommended If You Like: Flying Lotus, Death Grips<br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Recommended Tracks: 11 (No Different), 2 (Horn of the Clock-Bite), 1 (Groundwork)<br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Do Not Play: 3 (Ashes), 5 (The Bear \/ Coltan as Cotton), 6 (Burundi (feat. Emily Kokal), 9 (Roach Eggs), 10 (All Coltrane Solos at Once (feat. Haleek Maul))<br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Written by Shane Blair on 03\/02\/16 <\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A hip-hop album with world and experimental twists, boasting a well emphasized message of oppression.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1609,"featured_media":42153,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182,4,3235,3230],"tags":[4440,4439,2934],"class_list":["post-42152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hip-hopelectronic-rotation","category-music","category-music-reviews","category-new-music-rotation","tag-martyrloserking","tag-saul-williams","tag-shane-blair"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Saul-Williams_Martyr-Loser-King-cover.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}