Faction of the Fox - s/t (Quincy Shanks)

Reviewed by Mark Oster

Boy, was I surprised to push play on this one. A Quincy Shanks release, I was not expecting a rap album. I'm the last person in the world that's going to claim to know anything about rap, so my frame of reference is pretty limited. But they use some unique samples, all over the board really, one sounds like a theme to a childrens show, another a like a spy movie, and yet another like a lounge album. They serve up a delivery, that to my untrained ear, recalls something similiar to the Beastie Boys. Everything I've read about the group suggests that this was a "just for the hell of it" kinda thing by some vets of the Chicago punk scene. It sounds like they had a great time putting this together, and it's a pretty entertaining listen.

Originally posted in Issue 1.1, August 2004