Themselves

After a seven-year hiatus, Themselves return on a rampage of heady rap wrung from hard-working hands. Of course, the duo of Jeffrey "Jel" Logan and Adam "Doseone" Drucker are never too far from the frontlines of good art and honest music. Last year, their Subtle sextet released its third album, the critically acclaimed and wildly adventurous ExitingARM, and a 2005 collaboration with Germany's the Notwist yielded the cult gem 13 & God. There have been solo offerings, guest appearances, and ceaseless touring, but not peep from the name behind 2002's left-field classic The No Music. That blessed interim has seen Doseone and Jel become the fearless musicians and exacting artists they'd always meant to be. Now, hungrier than ever, Themselves are here to scrawl a bold new chapter across rap's too-stale tome. Furthermore, they set out to accomplish this feat unadorned, returning to hiphop's most cardinal and carnal form, the number two: the DJ and the MC-neck-snapping beats and precision prose-accompanied by a little righteous indignation, of course. Such things do have roots, naturally, and Themselves' are as colorful as one would expect. In 2009, Themselves return to a core that's been warming, strengthening, and expanding all the while

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