Populous Queue For Love

• Words: Dave Stenton
• Label: Morr Music

Queue For Love, Populous‘ second album, is unusual in that it features hip-hop at its most abstract-there are drifting, soundtrack-style cuts here, plus a glitchy beat bath featuring rapper Dose One. The record also explores the the age-old formula of fusing heavy beats with killer jazz samples, as executed with aplomb on "Pawn Shop Close," "Sundae Pitc," and "The Dixie Saga." The best track, though, is the closer "Drop City"-a glorious collision of both old and new.