Night Enders – “Faces of Humanity”

Trust, this track is a lot nicer than the above art will lead on. “Faces of Humanity” is track from Night Enders (Hans, Spoons, Hayes) which touches on police brutality. Big shout out to Hayes as his verse surrounds the beating and subsequent killing of Kelly Thomas, a mentally ill homeless man from Orange County California. This was one of, if not the, biggest story on every news channel for a month after the incident here in L.A. County. It speaks volumes that a cat from Rhode Island dedicated a whole verse to help bring attention to a growing problem. Take a listen for yourself:

“Faces of Humanity” will be on Night Enders’ forthcoming album, Island of Misfit Toys.  It’s also produced by Sinama and the big homie Vertygo hooked up the mix and master.

I fell behind in ’09…

Unfortunately, yes I did.  I planned to write quarterly reviews of all the music I had been listening to throughout the year, but I ended up accumulating so many albums that I didn’t even have a chance to listen to them all until the new year had passed.  However, an ass-load of what I did hear was fantastic.  Since I’ve been procrastinating so much on making a post like this, I’m going to try to bang it out as quick as possible.  So, while I may not be thorough in developing some (or any) of my opinions on the releases of 2009, I figure this is better than nothing.  Here goes…

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