Common Market - “Escaping Arkham”
off of the upcoming Winter’s End EP, which you can also stream @ the above link.
The Winter’s End, continues with the metaphorical seasonal themes of the agro-centric Tobacco Road. It stems from the seed of belief in a direct connection between depression, suicide and the notoriously long, wet winters of the Pacific Northwest. Intentionally timed for a Spring release, the album, in its 5-track entirety, represents triumph over the gloomy clutches of the dark season, setting the tone, both sonically and emotionally, for Common Market’s new beginning (or, Nouveau Depart, as track one is appropriately titled, in French).
Within seconds of the album’s opening track it becomes blatantly obvious that the duo has deliberately stepped outside the box, as RA Scion raps over a jazz funeral dirge played in 3⁄4 time. True to lyrical form, the emcee is verbose and on the offensive, but it’s with a renewed vigor drawn from the musical reference to a post-Katrina New Orleans that he calls into question the Old-World adages of The Church: “…in the wind a wish blows, what kind of men are content to live with those? I dig rows of holes for seeds, who I’mma feed with fishes and loaves?” The track swells into an awesome crescendo with the assistance of heart-wrenching synthesized horns; then suddenly it dies, as does the song’s narrator, in a disturbingly sweet peace.

18 Comments
sherpaco 1 year, 4 months ago
What’s up with that press release? Did some intern have Meinert sign their independent study class at SU? I feel like I have an uncomfortably higher intellect after reading it.
Rossta 1 year, 4 months ago
common market is dope, cant wait for more new songs!!
Alex 1 year, 4 months ago
@Sherpaco
Seriously. But the sad part is that it’s not even written correctly. It would be one thing if all the high-falutin language was used with correct grammar in a way that effectively communicated the point, but as it is, ugh. I mean, commas aren’t that hard to use correctly. And “continues with the metaphorical seasonal themes” is the most awkward possible construction of that sentence.
sherpaco 1 year, 4 months ago
I think they just used the online thesaurus a little too much.
CRESC 1 year, 4 months ago
“It would be one thing if all the high-falutin language was used with correct grammar in a way that effectively communicated the point, but as it is, ugh.”
Are you taling about RA
Alex 1 year, 4 months ago
@Cresc
lol no. I feel what Ra does on record for the most part, Tobacco Road was def one of my favorite albums of ‘08. I’m talking about the description of The Winter’s End. Rapping, that kinda language/structure makes sense because it has the emotion of the delivery (and maybe beat) to carry it. In a press release, it just sounds like a freshman english major trying to score points for fanciness.
CRESC 1 year, 4 months ago
“it just sounds like a freshman english major trying to score points for fanciness.”
Are you talking about RA
lar 1 year, 4 months ago
7 comments in an hour? where are you people normally
sherpaco 1 year, 4 months ago
the formula for RDH success is to namedrop ML
SMF 1 year, 4 months ago
why is it that no one seems to want to comment about the fucking music? I find the song above average.
Alex 1 year, 4 months ago
AHHHHHHHH I DON’T KNOW WHY IS EVERYONE YELLING!?!??!
but no, I’m not talking about ra. unless he wrote the song description. then I’m talking about ra.
joey t 1 year, 4 months ago
you people!?
lar your a racist!
im checking this out now.
wild bill thickcock 1 year, 4 months ago
joey t(bag) is a fucking tool
The Winter 1 year, 4 months ago
I like the references to drinking and opiates, very good. spring is almost here, sires & maidens!
PROMO 1 year, 4 months ago
HOLY SHIT THIS SONG SUCKS HOT ASS!!!
check your elf. 1 year, 4 months ago
the song is good. the writing is obvious trollan. people are too serious about this.
206hiphop 1 year, 4 months ago
“the writing is obvious trollan.”
Are you talking about RA?!?!?11
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