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Lights Out Paris (Deluxe Edition)

by Sims

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15 Blocks 04:47
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Tape Deck 04:48
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So It Goes 03:22
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May 1st 03:18
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Osmosis 04:08
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Lights Out 00:57
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Spinal Tap 02:54
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Includes newly remastered audio, digital booklet with full lyrics, four brand new remixes from Lazerbeak, Paper Tiger, MK Larada, and Joe Mabbott, and Sims’ super rare 2004 False Hopes Four EP

Whether he’s slinging a hammer on a third story rooftop or gripping a microphone onstage at a packed club, Sims takes his work seriously. His music is imbued with the DIY ethics and workingman philosophy as his daytime trade as a carpenter. He’s spent years working on his craft, and finally the fruit of his labor—Lights Out Paris—is out in the world. This is the house that Sims built. BAM!!!

Sims has built a rep for furious live shows; each crowd seems to be a little bigger than the last. But as the audience grows, the energy and sense of showmanship displayed onstage remains constant. Sims’ performances are always dynamic and uniquely personal affairs, winning crowds from coast to coast. BAM!!!! Lights Out Paris finds Sims channelling all of that live energy into a studio setting,
and BAM does it work.

The album is a sprawling, ambitious effort, backed by dark, propulsive production. Sims raps with purpose and finesse about hip hop culture, crew love, and the slow-motion train wreck of American politics. From “15 Blocks”: Washed ashore with bullet holes in our civilian clothes/ and I still ain't got it right/ so I walk some more/ and bid this burning city a good night.

4.5 stars
“As if you needed another reason to lend an ear to Minneapolis hip hop.”
-URB Magazine

Top Ten Local Albums of 2005.
“Not just another topical rapper, Sims shows a teeth-baring fierceness and tongue-tying lyrical talent on his solo debut.”
–Minneapolis Star Tribune

credits

released June 30, 2015

Executive Produced by MK Larada
Sexecutive Producer: P.O.S.
Engineered and Mixed by Joe Mabbott at The Hideaway
Interludes mixed by Turbo Nemesis
Mastered by Dave Gardener at Magneto Mastering
Additional production all over by MK Larada
Toki Wright appears courtesy of The C.O.R.E./Amplified Life
Brandon appears courtesy of Big Quarters
Crescent Moon appears courtesy of Kill The Vultures
Benzilla appears courtesy of FamFeud
Everyone else appears courtesy of Doomtree Records
Published by Sims Is A Business (BMI)

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Sims Minneapolis, Minnesota

Life and loss and dance parties. Sex and love and fractal math. Sims wrote More Than Ever last winter in the wake of some personally trying times: death and sickness in his immediate circle of friends and family. And he decided that the only acceptable answer to big loss is big joy—urgent, defiant, unapologetic joy. ... more

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