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A mysterious and highly experimental hip-hop group, Restiform Bodies deconstruct rap with the same approach that bands like <a href="spotify:artist:5UqTO8smerMvxHYA5xsXb6">Sonic Youth</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:79S80ZWgVhIPMCHuvl6SkA">Swans</a> took toward punk in the early '80s. Often harsh, moody, and quite bizarre, the troupe is made up of songwriter/vocalist <a href="spotify:artist:2Zd0DF8gI7I91Fveo44nww">David Bryant</a> (<a href="spotify:artist:2Zd0DF8gI7I91Fveo44nww">Passage</a>); percussionist and beatmaker Matt Valerio (the Bomarr Monk); and synth, sample, and effects slayer <a href="spotify:artist:54rgTcO3h6o36FJNBurH99">George Chadwick</a> (<a href="spotify:artist:54rgTcO3h6o36FJNBurH99">Telephone Jim Jesus</a>). Inspired by electronica, ghetto-tech, prog rock, and vintage R&B, the group took an aggressively inspired view of the genre, taking alternative rap beyond the fringes already established by <a href="spotify:artist:3zFaWPA8Jobgf5egh38KD2">Kool Keith</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:3FjTqZ6SZYSYQMzY03O4RG">Cannibal Ox</a>. Often sounding more like <a href="spotify:artist:3Rj0tDHoX7C5NFq5DKIpHt">Stereolab</a> than any other point of reference, the group's unique sound and image led to a deal with <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Anticon+Records%22">Anticon Records</a> (a collective that <a href="spotify:artist:2Zd0DF8gI7I91Fveo44nww">Bryant</a> belongs to), which released their 2002 eponymous debut, as well as 2008's TV Loves You Back. ~ Bradley Torreano, Rovi

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