Kill The Vultures 'Careless Flame' album

After three years of continuously relocating themselves between different coasts and zip codes, embarking on multiple cross-country tours, and experimenting with diverse artistic philosophies and methods, former Oddjobs members, Anatomy (Stephen Lewis), Crescent Moon (Alexei Casselle), Nomi (Mario De Mira), and Advizer (Adam Waytz), have emerged as a new group, Kill The Vultures. Re-established in their original habitat of the Twin Cities, Minnesota, where Oddjobs formed in 1996, Kill The Vultures marks a new musical direction for the quartet, although it is one deeply rooted in underground hip-hop.

Stripping themselves naked of past musical constraints and values, their self-titled debut, coming in late April on Jib Door/Locust Music, presents an organically and spontaneously formed collection of songs united by barebones pulp production provided by Anatomy, darkly comic lyrics from Nomi, Crescent Moon, and Advizer, and an overall urban noir sensibility.

The Careless Flame is the second album by critically acclaimed Minneapolis rust belt hip hop outfit, Kill The Vultures.
MC Crescent Moon (Alexei Casselle) lays out an urgent asphalt confessional of Big Apple torment, ghostly hallucinations & white lightening relief over Anatamoy's rickety chain gang rhythms, obscured arabesque guitars & wailing noir saxophone skronk.
Flame is a decibel pushing, in the red collection of scorched earth avant hip hop summoning the spirit of blues in the raw.
So throw yourself in the pit. This is music to burn up to: elemental, brutal, tormented, essential & it will get you moving.

Praise for KTV’s self titled debut "Dark, quality production, good rhyme flows. If you get high or are the serious mad-at-the-world type, you'll love this."~Prince Paul, XLR8R magazine

"Kill the Vultures is a band hell bent on using beats and rhymes to sound like bent hell, flipping abrasive and dissonant punk and bop samples instead of the typical boom bap." Dave Hlubeck, Fader

"It's the best underground hip-hop I've heard this year" Salon.com

"Kill the Vultures sounds like an attack on the slickness of mainstream hip-hop: the brutally lean production style is almost lo-fi, and the rhymes echo the hectoring of Def Jux acts like Cannibal Ox and El-P." - Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader

"While the album's three-part rap attack recalls Oddjobs, the production is darker, wilder and more experimental." ~ Chris Riemenschneider, Star Tribune

"Over a pounding clatter that's part Age of Chance, part Public Enemy, three commanding voices swing like mad over the racket, like Last Poets on a bed of bongos." - Twin Cities

"avant-rap that sounds a little like walking through a tool shed in the dark while carrying a boombox blaring free jazz." City Pages

" This is some Last Poets, Magic Band, gang-funk, dirty-ass, hip-hop, beatnik, smacked-out-jazz business. Take a listen." indieworkshop.com

Best of the Twin Cities, 2005
Voted Best Hip-Hop Artist by City Pages

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Kill The Vultures - Careless Flame