New Busdriver - "Me-Time (With The Pulmonary Palimpsets)"

You'll need five listens of this new Busdriver track to get a beat on the dextrous, rapidfire tongue twirling at hand, which is to say it is a Busdriver track. The forthcoming Jhelli Beam is his eighth album and has a solid list of collaborators, including old partners (producers Daedelus and Nobody, Islander Nick Thorburn), Deerhoof dudes (John Dietrich on guitar, Greg Saunier on production) and fellow quick fire specialists Mikah 9 and Nocando. But "Me-Time (With The Pulmonary Palimpsets)" is just Regan with a one-off production contribution from Omid, who keeps the BPM high and subdivided by throwing fat bass under Mozart's Sonata in A Major, giving Busdriver the 1/128th notes (not really but almost) he needs to fill a notebook full of "Vladimir Putin"/"cashmere pantsuit"-sorta rhymes and structural headspins that tip toward Tony Hawk's favorite jam "Imaginary Places." Screw up your ears and parse the syllables:

Busdriver - "Me-Time (With The Pulmonary Palimpsets)"

Get all that? You did not get all that, listen again. Jhelli Beam is out 6/9 via Anti-. Here's the tracklist:

01 "Split Seconds (Between Nannies and Swamis)" (Produced by Nosaj Thing)
02 "Me-Time (With the Pulmonary Palimpsets)" (Produced by Omid)
03 "Handfuls of Sky" (Produced by Nobody and Busdriver)
04 "Scoliosis Jones" (Produced by Daedelus)
05 "Least Favorite Rapper" (feat. Nocando) (Produced by Free The Robots)
06 "Quebec and Back" (Produced by Nobody)
07 "Do the Wop" (Produced by Daedelus)
08 "World Agape" (Produced by Greg Saunier)
09 "Manchuria" (feat. Mikah 9) (Produced by Nobody)
10 "Unsafe Sextet/Gilded Hearts of Booklovers" (Produced by Omid)
11 "Happy Insider" (feat. Nick Thorburn) (Produced by Daedelus and Busdriver)
12 "I've Always Known" (Produced by Busdriver)
13 "Fishy Face" (feat. John Dietrich) (Produced by Daedelus)

Posted at 5:54 PM by amrit in MP3
Tags: Busdriver

9 Comments

ahhh there's nothing like new busdriver. truly a nutjob.

Posted by: faas at 04/28/09 6:17 PM  | Reply
Score = 3

whoop!

Posted by: matt at 04/28/09 7:11 PM  | Reply
Score = 1

Hot. (But I think it's 'palimpsest', not 'palimpsets')

Posted by: R. at 04/28/09 8:04 PM  | Reply
Score = 1

he jacked that beat from edan

Posted by: wut at 04/28/09 8:40 PM  | Reply
Score = 0

Anytime somebody says rap sounds the same and talk about nothing new, play Busdriver in their headphones. They will be dumbfounded

Posted by: Black Sunshine at 04/28/09 9:14 PM  | Reply
Score = 4

Truly the worst kind of rapper out there. This shit should be banned.

Posted by: Michael H at 04/29/09 9:55 AM  | Reply
Score = -11

Truly the worst kind of person out there. etc.

Posted by: matt  in reply to Michael H's comment at 04/29/09 1:03 PM  | Reply
Score = 1

Generally I can't get into rap, but I loved Busdriver's Roadkill Overcoat and can't wait for this album too. Lyrically, he makes me think of Beck, Frank Zappa and maybe a hyperactive kid who watches nothing but CSPAN.

Posted by: TD at 04/29/09 11:45 AM  | Reply
Score = 4

fantastic!

Posted by: Shane Cotier at 05/17/09 9:06 PM  | Reply
Score = 1