A.V. Club: Best of the Decade

Artist Astronautalis

“Indie-country-electro” rapper Astronautalis has shared the stage with everyone from A Tribe Called Quest to The Polyphonic Spree to Rancid, which indicates both how seamlessly he blends his roots-rock, IDM, and hip-hop influences and how schizophrenic the resulting songs are. His latest, Pomegranate, muddies up the quest to define even further, delving into American Gothic sounds like sawing fiddles and penny-opera pianos to create an appropriately rustic background for his breathless run through historical fiction tales about con men, stowaways, heretics, and the Battle Of Trenton.

Updated 11/03/2009

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