Run The Jewels: Meow the Jewels - Album Review

There is more than one way to skin a cat.

Nearly 3,000 RTJ fans contributed to a crowdfunding campaign to make this remixed version of El-P and Killer Mike’s last album using cat sounds a reality.

On the surface of it, Meow the Jewels is a ridiculous notion (it did after all begin as a throwaway jape), yet it also shows that where there's a will and the internet, there's a way.

Producers and collaborators such as Portishead’s Geoff Barrow, Just Blaze, Massive Attack’s 3-D, Boots, Zola Jesus, Prince Paul, Blood Diamonds supersize the duo’s boom tunes with meows, yelps and purrs from the feline gallery.

The album is played for laughs, yet there's something strangely compelling about Barrow's rendition of Close Your Eyes (And Count to Fuck) and Just Blaze's bonkers Oh My Darling Don't Meow.

[ runthejewels.net ]