Artist: Gargoyle
Album Title: Saintsinner
Year: 2008
Type: LP
Label: Broken Tooth Entertainment
Links: http://www.myspace.com/joeygargoyleReviewer: suggestBefore you even open this release you know its going to be on some darker ish just from looking at the cover, the picture is Gargoyle sitting in the corner of a rather packed cemetery. Now although this is a bit of a smaller LP to what most are accustomed too, it still comes with 11 tracks of grimy beats and rugged flows. Released in 2008 through
Broken Tooth Entertainment and
Shogun Distribution, it would appear that this album, rapping and production, has been made entirely by the man himself, besides production on 4 tracks
The Mens Ahelter and
The End which were produced by
Tornts, whilst
Sans Abri and
Worthless & Drown produced and mixed by
I.N.C.H. All other mixing was done by
Ciecmate.
From the very get go it's a dark and rugged feeling album, the beats, the rhymes even
Gargoyle's accent. Put them all together and you've got a pretty decent album. I can't speak too highly of it because albums that are 100% grimy can bore me a little, I prefer to have a mixture of talent on a release, rather then each track sounding the same as the one before but with a different loop and a few different words. Don't get me wrong I do like
Saintsinner but I can't see it being an album I'll put on regular rotation.
Gargoyle has admittedly done a good job on the album, the beats are crisp and have some dope samples running over them, all the recording is clean and it all fits in well with each other. My only real qualm besides the same sounding tracks is that gargoyles flow can sound a bit off or awkward at times, he'll being going well then stop and chuck something in that doesn't sound right. This aside I can appreciate it for what it is and will be interested to see if Gargoyle brings out a second release ,and if so, what its going to sound like?
I'll give it a 2.5/5
Skae