Latyrx - Call To Arms

Hair of the Dog · Post by **Hair of the Dog** » Fri May 04, 2012 8:48 am

New single from Latyrx:

http://soundcloud.com/latyrx/latyrx-call-to-arms

Apparently a new album is on the way as well...

Echo Leader · Post by **Echo Leader** » Fri May 04, 2012 10:16 am

Wow. That was terrible. These guys cannot rap half as well as these used to.

The timing on this is kinda funny because I listened to the first Latryx album for the first time in years yesterday. I guess it's cool they're making music together again, but this is grasping at straws. Straws from 1997.

Echo Leader · Post by **Echo Leader** » Fri May 04, 2012 10:21 am

OK. I've listened to this twice now, and I guess it's not such much "terrible" as it is boring, trite, and completely unnecessary. Half-baked, psuedo-sociopolitical backpacker-era throwback crap.

If this is what a new Latyrx album will sound like, I do not want.

Employee · Post by **Employee** » Fri May 04, 2012 2:15 pm

No...its terrible.

I still can't believe these guys fell off as hard as they did.

Props if they're still caked up or whatever, but I can't listen to them anymore.

dynamite looks · Post by **dynamite looks** » Fri May 04, 2012 2:18 pm

I can't believe this is the same duo who once created the magic known as balcony beach.

Mindbender Futurama · Post by **Mindbender Futurama** » Fri May 04, 2012 2:20 pm

as someone who lists the song 'Latyrx' as one of the top ten most advanced and innovative songs I absolutely have ever heard in my life, this is... less than

damn, homie.

Thun · Post by **Thun** » Fri May 04, 2012 2:22 pm

Seems pretty consistent.

Echo Leader · Post by **Echo Leader** » Fri May 04, 2012 2:25 pm

Employee wrote:No...its terrible.

I still can't believe these guys fell off as hard as they did.

Props if they're still caked up or whatever, but I can't listen to them anymore.

These dudes are making music for a different demographic these days. Most of their original fan base (myself included) are simply not part of that demographic.

drizzle · Post by **drizzle** » Fri May 04, 2012 2:29 pm

isn't lyrics born a crooner now or someshit

Employee · Post by **Employee** » Fri May 04, 2012 2:31 pm

Thun wrote:Seems pretty consistent.

LameAim · Post by **LameAim** » Fri May 04, 2012 5:52 pm

Thun wrote:Seems pretty consistent.

Was I the only one waiting for this?

Mindbender Futurama · Post by **Mindbender Futurama** » Fri May 04, 2012 6:03 pm

Employee wrote:
Thun wrote:Seems pretty consistent.

yeah.

cmon Thun, don't play dumb.

that song 'Call To Arms' does NOT compare in any way to this:

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or this

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Dids · Post by **Dids** » Fri May 04, 2012 6:42 pm

I enjoyed this (and I've hated most of LB's solo stuff). Kinda agree with Thun in that (on one listen) it didn't strike me as radically different from their album (a personal top 15 or so).

Kinda weak that one half of a line merits a "featuring" for Boots.

Employee · Post by **Employee** » Fri May 04, 2012 6:50 pm

Dids wrote:I enjoyed this (and I've hated most of LB's solo stuff). Kinda agree with Thun in that (on one listen) it didn't strike me as radically different from their album (a personal top 15 or so).

Kinda weak that one half of a line merits a "featuring" for Boots.

Dude...

Mindbender Futurama · Post by **Mindbender Futurama** » Sat May 05, 2012 4:29 am

you guys dont know Latyrx if you think this sounds like Latyrx. Even if this was MADE BY LATYRX.

that's like saying 'Light Your Ass on Fire' sounds like the same Busta Rhymes on the LONS album 'T.I.M.E.'

Galvatron78 · Post by **Galvatron78** » Sat May 05, 2012 7:54 am

The Wreckoning (all versions) and Off With Their Heads is an example of Mc's setting the bar so got-damn high for themselves that it ends up being some shit that can't be created anymore.

Mindbender Futurama · Sat May 05, 2012 12:52 pm

Galvatron78 wrote:The Wreckoning (all versions) and Off With Their Heads is an example of Mc's setting the bar so got-damn high for themselves that it ends up being some shit that can't be created anymore.

fucking true.

but why didn't they keep going in that direction?

what the fuck were they smoking in 96 and 97? and who cut off the supply?

seriously, i been waiting for Lateef and Lyrics Born to make something on the Latyrx level for EVER. Seriously, that album changed my life and is a major part of why I rhyme without rules. Cause I fucking grew up on Latyrx, Company Flow, Indelibles and Siah and Yeshua, motherfucker!

but after hearing this song, i half accept that they may never do it again.

B. Ware tha Siniq · Post by **B. Ware tha Siniq** » Sat May 05, 2012 1:59 pm

Dids wrote:I enjoyed this (and I've hated most of LB's solo stuff). Kinda agree with Thun in that (on one listen) it didn't strike me as radically different from their album (a personal top 15 or so).

Kinda weak that one half of a line merits a "featuring" for Boots.

You do realize Thun probably didn't listen to it and would've said the same thing no matter what it sounded like right?

young god · Post by **young god** » Sat May 05, 2012 4:42 pm

one song that was after the latyryx album that reached that same level was the song "Storm warning." Anyone remember that?

Mindbender Futurama · Post by **Mindbender Futurama** » Sat May 05, 2012 7:28 pm

young god wrote:one song that was after the latyryx album that reached that same level was the song "Storm warning." Anyone remember that?

yes. the last hurrah.

Quannum compilation 'Spectrum', right? good stuff.

they just sound like they streamlined their styles like crazy now.

once you let the monster out, you don't put it back in the cage.

capable_keL · Post by **capable_keL** » Sat May 05, 2012 8:12 pm

i wanted so much for this to be good, but this is horrible

Thun · Post by **Thun** » Sat May 05, 2012 10:34 pm

B. Ware tha Siniq wrote:
Dids wrote:I enjoyed this (and I've hated most of LB's solo stuff). Kinda agree with Thun in that (on one listen) it didn't strike me as radically different from their album (a personal top 15 or so).

Kinda weak that one half of a line merits a "featuring" for Boots.
You do realize Thun probably didn't listen to it and would've said the same thing no matter what it sounded like right?

Probably didn't?

How do people here have time to check out Latyrx tracks post '99 when there's literally days of pretending to be familiar with the Beastie Boys discography pre-Hello Nasty yet ahead?