It's a recipe designed to kill with indie rockers looking to branch out, and it sure as hell slew me. With all these journalistic jumping points at play, it's clear why Chesnutt's got the hype-o-meter needle rapidly on the rise-- it was just given a significant boost by his eye-raising appearance on The Roots' cover of his own "The Seed".
But Chesnutt is simply a damned interesting guy; one could easily imagine him stepping into the role The Streets' Mike Skinner currently holds, that of hyper-profiled basement visionary and loner suddenly thrust into the limelight. Cody even has his own "Weak Become Heroes", an anthemic celebration of his cultural sect called "Serve This Royalty", which concerns the ephemeral neo-soul genre rather than raver transcendence.
Of course, Original Pirate Material has less of the self-indulgence, lack of focus, and unbridled sonic and lyrical crudity that make The Headphone Masterpiece so frustrating, yet compelling.
Chesnutt wastes no time letting his listeners know what they're in for, leading with a thirty-second Rhodes and vocal snippet that's followed by a lengthy bit of simplistic drum machination under guest-star spoken word poetry that-- I'm pretty sure-- contains the phrase "hymen gauze. The track indicates Chesnutt knows what he's doing with this lack of fidelity; done slick, the song could very easily pass for a Lenny Kravitz single, but loose and hissy, it has the raw immediacy lacking in modern-day waiting-room soul.
Chesnutt is no nostalgia act, thank God, but would it be wrong of me to think he's trying to link up with those simpler days, circumventing the last three decades of glossy soul crooning? Theoretically exciting stuff, sure, but that's what makes it so tragic when the rest of disc one degenerates into catastrophe. Magic in a Mortal Minute. Cody ChesnuTT. With Me in Mind. Upstarts in a Blowout.
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