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Chris Faust - Looking Back
Artist: Chris Faust
Featuring: Outasight
Producer: Ibe
Album: FAUST
Label: Yatta Mayjour Records
First impressions are important, but they can also be very deceiving – and that goes double when the individual being sized up is as versatile as Chris Faust. In stark contrast to the Brooklyn hopeful’s Booth debut, the darkly experimental Book of Faust, newly-leaked mixtape cut Looking Back is positively… chill. Producer Ibe‘s lightly jazzy, piano-led beat makes for ideal vibe-out material, and Faust comes with fittingly mellow, introspective rhymes on the topics of progress and regret; he even kicks the cut off with a lyrical homage to Kanye‘s iconic Late Registration opener, Heard ‘Em Say. Unsurprisingly, longtime reader fave (and exclusive freestyle series contributor) Outasight excels on the guest tip, contributing his uniquely reedy sung vocals on the hook and outro as well as updating us on his major-label grind on the middle verse. So, readers, are you digging this more laid-back side of the artist’s style? Whatever your take on the matter, you won’t want to miss the eclectically fresh new material Chris is set to showcase on his FAUST LP, due out August 24.
This song first appeared on the
Independent Chart
on August 2, 2010
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Tastemaker  Total Ratings: 1305 |
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The piano works well here. The beat is pretty simple but both emcees flow well over it. Outsight definitely adds to the song.
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| Posted on Jul 28, 2010 |
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Tastemaker  Total Ratings: 492 |
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Love the soul over the percussion beat, gj from every aspect because both Chris and Outa did their thing.
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| Posted on Jul 28, 2010 |
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This is easily my favorite feature of the night. The production is lovely wit that mellow piano, and Outasight is always fun to listen to. Faust spits some nice lyrics that fit perfectly with this type of production.
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| Posted on Jul 28, 2010 |
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DJ Booth Crew  Total Ratings: 2476 |
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You never know what you're going to get from Faust, and I really dig that about him. This is an absolutely stellar track - the production's perfectly minimal, Faust's rhymes are clever and smooth and Outasight crushes this hook. Dopeness.
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| Posted on Jul 28, 2010 |
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DJ Booth Crew  Total Ratings: 11676 |
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I wish I had the time to write more than "this song is dope," but for today that is going to have to do. Keep up the good work, Chris.
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| Posted on Jul 28, 2010 |
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Tastemaker  Total Ratings: 432 |
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This is the quality that i have come to expect from outasight, and chris holds his own. 3.5 stars
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| Posted on Jul 28, 2010 |
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| Posted on Aug 01, 2010 |
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I like the unique slow piano beat liking this song alot cant wait to hear from Chris Faust
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| Posted on Aug 01, 2010 |
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Tastemaker  Total Ratings: 2065 |
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I love walking to this track in Manhattan.
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| Posted on Sep 19, 2010 |
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Tastemaker  Total Ratings: 1217 |
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Guy's singing wasn't exactly the greatest, but the production and the rhymes come together so perfectly, I couldn't possibly rate below a four.
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| Posted on Sep 20, 2010 |
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