As good as it was, Ceschi Ramos‘ earlier work at times felt more like a collection of great ideas with songs interspersed throughout than a cohesive album. The New Haven rapper’s third record (and the first to be produced by Equinox Records founder DJ Scientist), The One Man Band Broke Up rectifies this, feeling consistently like ‘an album’ in the purest sense of the term. This means that the concept behind the album – chronicling the rise and fall of fictional musician Julius and the Bearded Saviour – is more fully realised and far easier to follow (and thus enjoy) than that of 2006’s They Hate Francisco False or 2004’s Fake Flowers.
That coherence would mean nothing, however, if the songs themselves weren’t up to scratch. Lucky, then, that what’s on offer here is some of the best material Ceschi has ever produced. No songs stand out as being weak links and although some of the folkier tracks can take a while to sink in, once they hit they hit hard. The high points on the record – ‘Half Mast’, lead single ‘Bad Jokes’ and ‘Long Live The Short Lived’, the last of which features one of Sole’s best verses since cLOUDDEAD’s ‘I Promise Never To Get Paint On My Glasses Again (1)’ – are not only Ceschi’s best work, but some of the best examples of alternative hip hop in recent years.
Ceschi’s greatest skill, inhumanly precise flow aside, has always been his wild juxtaposition of genres, and this trend continues on The One Man Band Broke Up. Very few records, if any, manage to channel hip hop, pop, psychedelia and folk into the same forty minutes while remaining as accessible as this. Such is the effect that, when Ceschi revealed to us recently that the duo are already working on a second album together, the obvious and almost indescribable excitement was tempered somewhat by the knowledge that they really do have their work cut out if they want to best this.
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Matthew Healy is a musician and student in Edinburgh. 
CESCHI IS DOPE AND SO IS DJ SCIENTIST….CANT WAIT!!!!!
Ceschi’s new album will be a massive album. The tracks I’ve heard so far are all mind blowing. The next album will be even more of a Banger. You will hear more and more of Ceschi within the next few years. He’s now blowing up even though he’s been in the game 10 plus years. He does deserve this well reviewed accreditation and all new acclaim. Ceschi will be a house hold name in another 10 years. Mark my words. He’s marvelous at what he does.
[...] Stereokill.net gets the first crack at Ceschi Ramos’ The One Man Band Broke Up and they love it! They give the album 4.5/5 headphones and say that, “Very few records, if any, manage to channel hip hop, pop, psychedelia and folk into the same forty minutes while remaining as accessible as this.” [...]
I’m definalty all over the same page! I havent been a long-time fan r anything but rest assure If I discovered Ceschi a long time ago U could call it. In the time that i have been listening to him Im becoming quite the finatic. I’m scraping all over the internet like the peanut butter jar for the Material like a desparate…peanut butta lova.? As a matter of fact i found myself feelin like the kid at the table that got told they could have some ice cream after I finish the spinach…that is anticipating the release in the very end of june. I can’t wait for the the spinach to end.
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