Kottonmouth Kings

The Green Album - FaygoLuvers.net Album Review

Artist Name: KottonMouth Kings
Album Title: The Green Album
Release Date: October 28th, 2008
Record Label: Suburban Noize Records

It’s their tenth full length studio album, their thirteenth year in the industry, and a new chapter to add to the Kottonmouth catalog. It’s been a long strange trip and each year seems to bring in more strange-ness to the scene. It would seem to me that the KMK had found their sound they were going for a long time ago on “Rollin’ Stoned” with how laid back and stony the album felt. Since then they’ve taken many different routes with their music and some have been good ventures while others have not.

Finally, this album and most of its sounds are like a breath of fresh air from the Sub Noize Camp to branch away from their radical sounds of punk fusion with everything they do. I think that this, the Green Album, is a chance that they’ve taken to handle their music like they used to, with the laid back, mellow feel as opposed to the rip-hop sound they’ve been putting down. To me their rip-hop just doesn’t do it, I think that they’re better songwriters than that. For as much as those RH songs can be politically charged I just feel that if they were to take their time and sit down in their studio and write a connected track with the times at hand it comes out way better.

On this album what I like about it so much is how they not only took it back to a time of yesteryear, but they also kept the featured artists to a minimum which could display the Kings’ abilities that much more on the microphone. And in my personal opinion I feel that the group has grown over the years like a bud plant that’s been carefully crafted and well kept. Even though I like this album so much for the lacking on the rip-hop tracks they still snuck a couple in there: “Super Hero” and “So Cal.” If not your taste like myself thank god for the skip button. But then there are the tracks that are like the lyrical buds that I crave and want to hear with tracks like: “Pack your bowl”, “ Freeworld”, and “Where I’m Going.”

It’s an addition to make to your Kottonmouth Collection for sure if you like the group. If not a fan then roll up a dutch and burn that bitch while the disc turns in your friends system.
Websites:

KottonMouthKings.com
Myspace.com/KottonMouthKings

Reviewer: Whipstick
Favorite Track(s): Pack Your bowl
Overall Rating: 7 / 10