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The Roots - "No Alibi" (Demo Version) + "undun" Artwork & Tracklist
The Roots - "No Alibi" (Demo Version) + "undun" Artwork & Tracklist

By JR on 11:04 AM

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 Here's a treat from The Roots' "Illadelph Halflife" sessions, courtesy of YouTube user anatomyspills. This is an alternate version of "No Alibi" which has a little more "live", spontaneous feel than the album version as if they were just recording the song as a demo to be further refined into song form later. This brings back great memories of my personal favorite Roots album, something about those songs capture a nostalgia and moments of life like none other in my opinion, especially Thought's visual lyrics on "No Alibi".


 In moving forward to 2011, The Roots album entitled "undun" marks their first ever conceptual music project as a re-telling of Redford Stephens which illustrates "the intersection of free will and prescribed destiny as it plays out 'on the corner.

 "At this point in our career we'd like for our work to have a unifying theme, and an experiential quality,î says "?uestlove". ìWe've been intentionally making our albums shorter in length so that they can be experienced as a continuous work. The music is band-oriented with an eye on the moody cinematic. As a DJ, I am the King of playlists, but I don't want our albums to feel like a playlist or a mixtape for that matter. We want to tell stories that work within the album format and we want the stories to be nuanced and useful to people. undun is the story of this kid who becomes criminal, but he wasn't born criminal. He's not the nouveau exotic primitive bug-eyed gunrunner like Tupac ís character Bishop in Juice.. he's actually thoughtful and is neither victim nor hero. Just some kid who begins to order his world in a way that makes the most sense to him at a given moment... At the end of the day... isn't that what we all do?"

"undun" is set for release on December 6th. Check out the tracklist for "undun" below:

 1. Sleep
 2. Make My
 3. One Time
 4. Kool On
 5. The Jump
 6. Stomp
 7. Lighthouse
 8. I Remember
 9. Tip The Scale
 10. Redford

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