Count Bass D

'L7'

Seasoned indie MC reports from lo-fi outskirts of Cashville.

Spin Rating7 of 10

Thirteen years after his unjustly neglected debut, Pre-Life Crisis, Nashville's Dwight "Count Bass D" Farrell is still a quirky Deep South firebrand. He juices his tunes with R&B flavor and spices his beats with charmingly off-key vocals and stentorian rhymes. Tart bangers ("Neon Soul," "Personal Things") spit out of his MPC sampler at a frantic pace, and the ruddy, unevenly mixed L7 flies by in about 30 minutes. But even at his most erratic, the Count exhibits more raw soul than a thousand Chris Browns.

By Mosi Reeves

1 Van Halen 'A Different Kind of Truth'
2 Lana Del Rey 'Born to Die'
3 Cloud Nothings 'Attack on Memory'
4 Kathleen Edwards 'Voyageur'
5 Himanshu 'Nehru Jackets'
6 The Mark Lanegan Band 'Blues Funeral'
7 Of Montreal 'Paralytic Stalks'
8 Leonard Cohen 'Old Ideas'
9 Imperial Teen 'Feel the Sound'
10 Skrillex 'Bangarang'

1 Cloud Nothings 'Attack on Memory'
2 Cloud Nothings 'Attack on Memory'
3 Kathleen Edwards 'Voyageur'
4 The Mark Lanegan Band 'Blues Funeral'
5 The Mark Lanegan Band 'Blues Funeral'
6 Leonard Cohen 'Old Ideas'
7 Escort 'Escort'
8 Escort 'Escort'
9 Escort 'Escort'
10 Himanshu 'Nehru Jackets'

Count Bass D

'L7'

The Mark Lanegan Band 'Blues Funeral'

Of Montreal 'Paralytic Stalks'

Van Halen 'A Different Kind of Truth'

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