This came out in 2004 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
The line between hip-hop, jazz and electronica has been gradually blurring for years.
On his outstanding and artful full-length Chewing On Glass & Other Miracle Cures, Montreal resident Rob (Sixtoo) Squire comes close to rubbing it out once and for all. Instead of relying on crate-dug samples, Squire learned to play piano and recruited musical pals (including members of Godspeed You Black Emperor!) to flesh out his ideas, which became the building blocks for these 17 darkly groovy vignettes. Some tracks are totally organic, some are cut-and-paste jobs built from tapes, and others split the difference. But Squire smartly keeps most of them short and bittersweet, seamlessly linking them into an album-length progression of indisputable style and taste. A cool concept brilliantly executed.
