I remember Chuck D at some point said something like he wanted to make music girls hated, which I think sums it up quite well.
It's messy, aggressive, sharp, intelligent, catchy & noisy, it has great beats yet is impossible to dance to, pretty much anything you could ask for in an album.
Think they had a method of composition which basically involved noise jamming on 3 or 4 samplers for extended periods, taking any piece that sounded in any way good or coherent & looping it to form the basis of the track, which I think is a pretty genious working method.
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