Dessa - A Badly Broken Code (2010) VBR

Dessa - A Badly Broken Code

Year 2010

Tracks
1. Children's Work 3:11
2. Poor Atlas 1:38
3. The Crow 3:37
4. Dixon's Girl 2:43
5. Mineshaft II 3:40
6. The Chaconne Ft. Matthew Santos 4:42
7. Matches to Paper Dolls 3:31
8. Go Home 3:32
9. Seamstress [Explicit] 3:58
10. Dutch [Explicit] 3:20
11. The Bullpen [Explicit] 2:36
12. Momento Mori 2:18
13. Crew 2:55
14. Alibi 3:03
15. Into The Spin 2:35


Dessa(Darling) from Doomtree is not your average Female MC/Singer/Poet, although on paper it would seem like she sounds like every A typical woman releasing music in the hip-hop world today. As a member of the midwest power house crew DOOMTREE, Dessa stands out amongst carasmatic crew members like POS, Mike Mictlan and Cecil Otter, and not just because shes the sole female of the bunch. Aggresive, yet calculated and controled, Dessa made her power and pressence known on crew releases (False Hopes 12 "Flex", Doomtree official group album "the wren", "dots & dashes", and from POS's Never Better "Low life, low lights"). Now with her official debut solo album "A Badly Broken Code" finally out, Dessa is ready to really make her pressence felt, seen and heard. Doomtree out did themselves in the packaging (MK LARADA did the layout) and the production is flawless thanks to a bulk of the work done by Paper Tiger and MK Larada, with help from Lazerbeak, Big Jess and Dessa herself. The record starts out with a peek into Dessas life growing up as "Childrens Work" is deep and thoughtfull, yet haunting as dessa recalls her mother worrying about "...what she did, to raise such a serious kid". Nothing is purposeless or without meaning when Dessa does it, as every nuance and lyric is heavy with thought, love, pain,hurt and introspection. With stand out tracks like "Seamstress", "Matches to paper dolls" and the favorite "The Chaconne" which features Matthew Santos (known for Lupe Fiascos "Superstar"). "The Chaconne" is beatifully haunting and hypnotizing, and deserves every bit of praise it is getting. The year is new and fresh, but after this release, The year belongs to Dessa and Doomtree.