Breaking Kayfabe

Breaking Kayfabe
Studio album by Cadence Weapon
Released November 28, 2005
Genre Hip hop
Length 49:40
Label Upper Class Canada
Producer Cadence Weapon and Nik Kozub
Cadence Weapon chronology
Breaking Kayfabe
(2005)		 Afterparty Babies
(2008)

Breaking Kayfabe is the debut album by Canadian rapper Cadence Weapon, released in 2005 on Upper Class Recordings. It was also released in the United States by Anti-Records on March 13, 2007. Breaking kayfabe is a professional wrestling term for "breaking character".

Breaking Kayfabe received positive reviews from critics who praised the 8-bit style beats and intellectual lyrics meshing well together. The album was shortlisted for the 2006 Polaris Music Prize. However, it lost to Final Fantasy's He Poos Clouds.

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic80/100[1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
Drowned in Sound9/10[3]
Okayplayer[4]
Pitchfork8.0/10[5]
Stylus MagazineB[6]

Metacritic, which averages other critics' ratings, gave Breaking Kayfabe an average 80 out of 100, based on 9 reviews.[1]

Francis Jones of Drowned in Sound said production and lyrics feel equal and unique, and said the record ″demands and deserves undivided attention, its creator fashioning a brain-searing patchwork of ragged rap, electronic flourishes and truncated rhythms.″[3]

Marisa Brown of AllMusic said Cadence crafted electro beats over songs that carry intelligent lyrics, and Breaking Kayfabe is a cohesive set of songs, backpacker in the best of senses, smart and witty and provocative, experimental and well-produced, but at the same time very raw and very real-sounding."[2]

Peter Macia of Pitchfork said Cadence worked on ″smart″ lyricism and ″video game-inspired″ production, instead of hip-hop conventions and that the album hints he may be capable of a ″masterpiece.″[5]

Ian Mathers of Stylus Magazine said the production and lyricism shone bright after a few listens and called the albumn "Too exciting for the underground (maybe), too weird for the overground (hopefully not).[6]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Oliver Square"3:33
2."Sharks"3:59
3."Grim Fandango"3:36
4."Black Hand"3:47
5."30 Seconds"3:34
6."Diamond Cutter"2:45
7."Holy Smoke"3:16
8."Fathom"4:01
9."Turning on Your Sign"3:44
10."Lisa's Spider"2:31
11."Vicarious"4:20
12."Julie Will Jump the Broom"10:19

References

  1. 1 2 "Reviews for Breaking Kayfabe by Cadence Weapon". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved August 23, 2015.
  2. 1 2 Brown, Marisa. "Breaking Kayfabe - Cadence Weapon". AllMusic. Retrieved November 25, 2011.
  3. 1 2 Jones, Francis (September 19, 2007). "Album Review: Cadence Weapon - Breaking Kayfabe". Drowned in Sound. Retrieved August 24, 2015.
  4. ↑ Mistry, Anupa. "Cadence Weapon - Breaking Kayfabe". Okayplayer. Archived from the original on March 4, 2008. Retrieved November 25, 2011.
  5. 1 2 Macia, Peter (May 3, 2006). "Cadence Weapon: Breaking Kayfabe". Pitchfork. Retrieved August 24, 2015.
  6. 1 2 Mathers, Ian (December 19, 2005). "Cadence Weapon - Breaking Kayfabe". Stylus Magazine. Archived from the original on April 18, 2015. Retrieved November 25, 2011.


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