Prefuse 73 - Extinguished

Belvedere Jehosophat - Thursday, 3 November 2005 - Print Version

Released quite soon after One Word Extinguisher, Extinguished is made up of "outakes + different versions of tracks" from the former CD.
Sure enough Extinguished flies through 23 tracks in 37-odd minutes with only two or three songs lasting longer than three.

As you can imagine, though, the beats are absolutely spectacular, some of the best I've heard, and, really, the only conceivable reason this stuff didn't make it onto One Word Extinguisher is that that album would've just wound up being too long.

(Some of the music won't sound totally unfamiliar as it became something else on One Word Extinguisher.)

Every fragment, length notwithstanding, has something about it that makes you regret the fact that it wasn't further developed or, at least, further explored. Of course, this CD is only disappointing in that all these ideas weren't fully realised or just happened to become something else

Interestingly, whilst the music on Extingusished sounds like it belongs on One Word Extinguisher, the brevity of the songs and their quick cuts result in an album that sounds a little like Vocal Studies + Uprock Narratives.

Pase Rock, Cincinnati's finest, and the only guest, drops a nice enough verse. Also, Prefuse 73 has the presence of mind to sample Blonde Redhead's "In an Expression of the Inexpressible."

I only reviewed this album because I heard bits of Surrounded by Silence and it didn't sound that great.

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