Remind Me In 3 Days …
By The Knux

The Knux are what hip hop is supposed to sound like: literate, authentic, inventive, pushing a genre chasing yesterday’s hit back to being forward thinking. It’s audible adrenaline, made to be performed live on stage rather than endlessly overdubbed in a sterile studio. The tracks seem to push against the physical limits of the medium they’re on, as if their sheer massiveness is so tightly compacted there’s a very real danger of them exploding free and blowing your stereo apart.

I’ve noticed there’s two overall techniques of rapping – in the beat and outside it. The Knux work in the beat. No surprise since Knux brothers Al and Krispy are more musically adept than the genre average, playing and writing the music they rap over. They stay tight in the rhythm, making the lyrics and music weave together to the point the notes become as much a part of their flow as the words.

Remind Me In 3 Days … bangs more than a lot of recent releases from some “rock bands” I could name. It’s made to be listened to with the windows down and the volume up, a generous dose of club sensibility to give it a long term spot on your Friday night playlist, a confident flow to keep you on target, and made for those who understand the groove is more important than the diss. In a genre increasingly relying on image, The Knux are about the music. This is hip-hop done right.

Recommended Tracks: Fire (Put It In The Air), The Train

Video for “Fire (Put It In The Air)”

You can buy Remind Me In 3 Days … on Amazon and iTunes.

Keep up with The Knux at their official site, their MySpace page, and Twitter.

The Knux will be at the Bumbershoot Festival in Seattle September 7th and Austin City Limits October 2nd.