You may have noticed that there aren't that many hip hop records in Sounds of Mumble. It's not that I don't like nor listen to it much, I do. I just don't know if I know enough to know what's good or bad, but this one I immediately liked and thought was definitely worth mentioning. I might even go so far as to say it's the best hip hop record of last year of all the ones I've listened to. I didn't pick it up because my buddy MCPaul Barman has a little cameo in there. I didn't even know about that before I got it. Anyway, to tell you a little bit about the album, it is mostly a collaboration between Del tha Funkee Homosapien, the Automator and Kid Koala with many many guests including Prince Paul, MC Beans, Peanut Butter Wolf, and even unlikely Damon Albarn. The whole album is like a soundtrack to a distopic future Sci-Fi movie envisioned by Del. I am not one to get too deeply into rhymes, but of the bits I did hear, it sounds like a critique on society using a different context, but much more real than let's say Star Trek. Anyway, the beats are excellent although I'm not sure where Automator stops and Kid Koala begins.