Album Review - k-os - Atlantis: Hymns for Disco
Spiraling outward from Dirty Water, a collaboration with fellow Canuck
Sam Roberts that was featured on Joyful Rebellion, k-os turned his
attention, at least in part, away from saving hip-hop culture from its
corrosive self in order to focus upon the problems facing the world at
large. Although hip-hop and rap continue to be his touchstones, the
subject matter of his songs has crossed into terrain that once was tread
by Marvin Gaye and Bob Marley. His many allusions to water as well as
Atlantis: Hymns for Disco's title certainly aren't accidental, and the
overriding theme is one that, at its core, merges Baptist-imbued
Christianity with the positive vibrations of Rastafarian ideals and
hippie-imbued spirituality in order to push society toward the tipping
point of change before it is too late. Buried within this are more
personal ruminations that not only lend a sense of humility to the set,
but also make the point that global ****fts in perspective begin with
self-examination.
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