Murs - Varsity Blues 2

Album Rating:

8

Murs is the the black Dave Grohl.

There. I said it.

Dave Grohl is fucking cool and I love him like a brother. A brother who calls the cops on a muthafucker, but a brother nonetheless.

Murs is fucking cool as shit like Dave Grohl, I live to one day touch one of his hair thingies, and he has yet to call the authorities on me for any reason. (HEAR THAT DAVE! YOU PRICK!)

Murs's latest Varsity Blues 2 just dropped featuring Aesop Rock production, and it's weird. It's weird because the first track I hear is the title track and in it Murs actually confirms one of the thoughts I won't lie about having: "They say I'm only good when the session is depressing".

Hey Fuck you Murs, I like you in 88% of the shit you do.

It might not be completely true, but it sure as shit ain't wrong.

Murs has the ability to sound relaxed and fucking slay shit. Murs also has the ability to shred words to shit when he's intensifying his intensity to intensely snip snip the tent's intent, Lee. (Lee Shaner goes by Intuition and I now thank him in random articles cause he's the cutest) If he were a pocket tool, he would be my leatherman with dreads. Toss him in any situation and the dude's murdering with his mouth (mouthmurdering? mouthdering?)

What Varsity Blues 2 is to me is a perfect, albeit too short, example of what happens with one of your favorite rappers turned producers (Aesop Rock) and one of your favorite currently rapping rappers get together with nowhere-near-happy-raps over nowhere-near-happy-beaters. It's 6 tracks of awesome, featuring Murs's trademark "I'm a regular dude with a irregular talent to talk rap" over Aesop's "eerie, leery and robotic castration" production.

If the two of them were sitting here right now, I would proceed to high five each of them.

Then ask Murs if I could touch a thingie.

Then I would tell Aesop about the rap I imagined him rapping when I was hungover building Lego pirate ships with my 3 year old son. It was like he was right there: "Irregular immortals, this eye patch conceals my flight path. I serenade the wenches with my sword while my coral collection pays my ship's tax..."

UP NEXT: Aesop Rock does an ALL PIRATE THEMED ALBUM featuring Sage Francis as Round Beard, Murs as the Ghost of Christmas's Hair, Brother Ali as Arrrgh the Barkeep/Lunch Lady and Slug as Scabs the friendly, and itchy beggar!