WILLAMETTE WEEK
CD Review May 24th, 2006

[INCOMMENSURABLE] Hungry Mob's Three Days of Darkness album has been haunting me for quite some time now, but I'm never sure how to describe Portland's experimental hip-hop crew. I'm starting to think that Mic Crenshaw and company recorded the incommensurable album specifically to defy comparison and frustrate music critics. But I've finally got it. The Hungry Mob formula! You take one part P-Funk, one part Gil Scott-Heron and one part Nine Inch Nails, slip the concoction to Grace Jones at a Tool show and introduce her to Mos Def backstage. Obviously, they would write a politically charged rock opera together, and that rock opera would be called, ta-da: Hungry Mob! No, it's still not quite right, is it? How about this: It's really good, and it goes great with pot. CASEY JARMAN.