Slicker - We All Have a Plan

I can’t say this for sure, having never done any hard drugs myself, but if I had to venture I would say this CD was made heavily under the influence. And like what I’ve been told about being under the influence, this CD can be really cool and inventive or just really weird. Slicker’s album We all Have a Plan is different; there’s no arguing that. It’s an electronica album in the vein of Squarepusher but more urban. So like a Squarepusher album, it isn’t an easy listen, using samples of everything you could think to record and scyhitsophrenic rhythms that leave you twitching to find a beat. But unlike a Squarepusher album, Slicker uses MCs. Overall We all Have a Plan seems more like a statement than a record. In Slicker’s defense, when they comes back to us, when they decide to grace us with… music, it can be really good. Exactly half the tracks (2,3,5,6,7) are every bit as original as the others, yet are still accessible. Songs executed with what could be conceived as a plan. But for now Slicker seem more interested in messing with our minds and conceptions of music than putting together a solid record. Prententious? Yeah, but everyone seemed to like Kid A well enough. [www.weallhaveaplan.com]