Why MF Doom's New Album Needs Fixing

The people yelling "Villain." No, stop it.

The sound effects pastiche parts. Last time, on "Mmm Food," he compressed all the obnoxious sound effects tracks into one three track string you could skip so easily. This time they're all over, and they're on the same tracks as songs. Songs I care about.

Except "Batty Boys." This is 2009. I didn't know anybody in the world except dance hall reggae singers were still making songs with such strong anti-gay sentiment. In fact, I thought they were busy making songs about wild, penis-shattering sex. "Batty Boys" is surprising, too, seeing as this gay hate seems to come out of the blue for DOOM.

DOOM, which is my next point. Mr. DOOM, with his recent "all caps, no metal face" rename effectively makes it so that I forget the album exists by forcing it into the DOOM section of my ipod, not in the MF Doom section. Though I'm sure Dan Dumile wouldn't mind being between Donny Hathaway and Dr. Dooom. Of course, I bet Kool Keith is off somewhere being angry at yet another person biting his shit.

Oh yeah, and that girl he had rapping on Vaudville Villain? She still sucks, except now she sucks more.

The superhero voiceovers, unlike back on Operation: Doomsday, sound like in-studio amateur fakeries. No, stop it.

I find all this disappointing because underneath all this is a nice album that I do like. But I guess we're supposed to be happy he's alive and releasing anything at all. Or something.