The Martyr LP - Immortal Technique

The Martyr - Immortal Technique

It's not the Middle Passage, but it at least new content from Immortal Technique. It's just a LP, and it's available as a free digital download. The LP is composed previously unreleased and never before heard music from Immortal Technique. It was released on October 27th, 2011, and I recently had a chance to listen to all 16 tracks (13 full-length songs, 2 skits/interludes and even 1 speech).

The LP has a different feel to it compared to other Immortal Technique albums. It's less intellectual, but more high-powered and in your face. Kind of like Violence Begets Violence, the new Jedi Mind Tricks album. At first glance, you might think I just complimented the LP, but I'm not. I don't like where Immortal Technique is going with this. It sounds more average and 2nd-rate. And Immortal Technique's lyrics and more predictable and stale too. Maybe just because it's a LP, though. Hopefully Immortal's next album, The Middle Passage, will sound more like his earlier work.

In the entrie LP, only 2 songs were worth the download, Angels and Demons, and Toast to the Dead.

Angels and Demons is featuring Dead Prez and Bazaar Royale. It is produced by DJ Green Lantern (just like Immortal's last album, the 3rd World). It has a slow and calm tempo, a great chorus ( a sample from I don't know where), and good lyrics.

Toast to the Dead is great too. The beat is produced by the late producer, J Dilla. It also features DJ Green Lantern which produces the chorus with a buch of samples. Toast to the Dead is also really calm and chill. A really good song.

Also, track 16, Sign of the Times is really good too. The lyrics are great, but for whatever reason the drums really annoyed me. If it had a different producer, it could have been far better.

The rest of the LP is uneventful and boring, except the song called Rich Man's World (1%). In the song, it seems like Immortal Technique baically contradicted all of his previous 3 albums. I really didn't like the song.

Overall, the LP, The Martyr, is alright. It's just an LP, so 3 good songs is excusable. But Immortal Technique's next album, the Middle Passage, better be a 1000x better.