Hausu Mountain
Sharkula x Mukqs = Best Available Technology + Lil B
Take Caution on the Beach though no less loose or unhinged than its predecessor feels like a refinement of the style Chicago-based musicians Sharkula (
Brian Wharton) and Mukqs (
Max Allison) teased out on their first collaborative release, 2019’s
Prune City. The MC (Sharkula) and the producer (Mukqs) both possess a style awash in eccentricity to the point of absurdity, and the combination of the two makes for outsider hip-hop unlike most. Mukqs’ production sputters and glitches through a web of lo-fidelity synthesizers and treats the rhythmic grid like a loose suggestion, his samples and loops warping and stretching between and beyond bar lines.