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Depart from Me [Digipak]

Cage (Rap)
1 disc

1. Nothing Left to Say
2. Beat Kids
3. Dr. Strong
4. I Found My Mind in Connecticut
5. I Lost It in Havertown
6. Teenage Hands
7. Eating Its Way out of Me
8. Kick Rocks
9. Captain Bumont
10. Strain
11. Fat Kids Need an Anthem
12. Look at What You Did
13. Depart from Me
14. I Never Knew You
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Additional Info

Manufacturer Part Number (MPN): 179
Credits

Producer El-P; F. Sean; Aesop Rock
Engineer Phil Caivano
Personnel: Allison Bavitz, Sean Martin, Philip Caivano (guitar).
Audio Mixers: Joey "JR" Raia; Dave Ogilvie.
Eminem with more gore, grit, and grime, and without the time or energy for humor, Cage opens his 2009 effort, DEPART FROM ME, with his usual domestic ghoulishness. Its intro is a dark poem from a soul at society's fringe, which breaks into a primal scream, and then into the relentless flow of "Nothing Left to Say." But Cage has a lot left to say, and his constantly nervously-breaking down id is on a never-ending bender, his lyrics rampaging through backalleys of pain and regret and drug-fueled confusion, only breathing for borderline-sadistic hooks like the children's choir's chorus "it's always sunny in hell." Cage's world is savage, but on DEPART FROM ME, as on its predecessors, it's a stirring tour through the shadows of Hades from a tortured rapper with ever a thrilling story to tell.
Critic Reviews

Spin (p.89) - "DEPART FROM ME boils and burns, with producers El-P and F. Sean Martin building an epic, propulsive squall of feedback, surf guitar and programmed beats."