Hoo boy, that Bandcamp bio…

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Brad Shoup: I had a period where I thought hip-hop was pointing to this: obsessively polished wordplay delivered in a drift over blunted loops. So I’m more than ready to get with the baleful lope of the production and a slyly funny couple of verses that turn Cialis-peddling into a felony, as well as namecheck both twill and tweed and a slew of Ren Faire sights. I loved Lone Sharks; I’m glad to see the recipe is secure for a while longer.
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Anthony Easton: I like a lot of the rhymes, and in general the writing seems to be pretty tight. It seems to sample Kanye, or at least rip him off, but I have a year that is notoriously bad at identifying samples, but what ever the music that surrounds the chorus, makes it slightly more ambitious then the usual existential whining. 
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Patrick St. Michel: Maybe it’s just because I’ve mostly been listening to this song while wandering around in the summer heat, but “What Am I” sounds humid, the vocals recorded in a way that it seems like they are dripping.  The beat aims to take the narcotic approach of a Clams Casino and rub it up against early 90’s boom-bap, the end result claustrophobic.  The actual rapping similarly seeks to replicate an earlier time, and The Doppelgangaz wordy verses and ad-libs mostly hit the mark.  Yet the song is at its best when their voices get drenched in sweat on the chorus.  
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Josh Langhoff: Like Dopp, I’m typically unenthused by the blues as a genre, though audacious musicianship or a flair for arrangement can change my mind. This genre of seedy narratives piling on details-for-details’-sake doesn’t really do it for me, either; the same exceptions would apply.
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Iain Mew: I like the way that the distant, haunted singing makes it sound like it’s about an understandable identity crisis brought on by being shut in a tomb for thousands of years. There’s nothing as mysterious or interesting about the rapping, but it goes pretty well as a mood piece.
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Jonathan Bogart: Identity games over gloomy beats really only works when anyone cares who you are in the first place.
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Will Adams: I quite like the muffled moodiness of the sample paired with that trip hop beat, but its endless repetition allows the titular question to be too easily answered with, “background noise.”
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