Slug Magazine Reviews "Phantom of the Operation"
April 9, 2008
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National CD Reviews
April 2008 - Issue 232
Jordan Miche
Phantom of the Operation
Fill In The Breaks
Street: 07.01
Jordan Miche = Prom King Stigmata + Cadaver
Full of sporadic cadence and irreverence for rhyme, Jordan Miche's songs challenge the casual listener's short attention span. While some may shy away from his intimidating style, I'm willing to bet Jordan doesn't care about his music's inaccessibility-for that matter, neither do I. The listener who does make the effort to understand his carefully crafted verbal tapestries will be justly rewarded. If the artist is an individual especially sensitive to the unique feeling of the times-able to reflect that feeling through unique personal terms-then Jordan fits the definition perfectly. "My family once ran a plantation / I'm ashamed of these veins kid." Jordan abandons these kinds of caustic rap invectives only once on "Phantom of the Operation (in form, if not content)"-to sing a Sinatra-styled refrain of "I hate you." -Makena Walsh