Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes

'Eye Legacy'

TLC's troubled MC betrayed by posthumous grab bag.

Spin Rating4 of 10

In 2001, a year before her fatal auto accident, Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes quietly released the import-only Supernova, a thoughtful hip-hop solo debut packed with askew rhymes and low-key rhythms. Eye Legacy renames and remixes several Supernova tracks and finishes off some previously unreleased jams with diminished results: Lopes' complex flow rarely sits comfortably in the harder cuts, original guests Tupac Shakur and Esthero have vanished, and the introspection of this unconventional artist's final years too often gets obscured by the updated glitz. She deserves better.

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The Legacy Continues....

By Barry Walters

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'

Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes

'Eye Legacy'

The Mark Lanegan Band 'Blues Funeral'

Of Montreal 'Paralytic Stalks'

Van Halen 'A Different Kind of Truth'

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