It's been a while since Abdominal has recorded anything.

This is in fact his debut solo album after previously appearing on albums such as DJ Format's Music for the Mature B-Boy and DJ Fase's Flowtation Device.

Abdominal is known for his quirky flow and almost unprecedented technical skill which he uses to weave scenarios and stories into a song, and with his debut album he doesn't disappoint.

For example, on second track Breathe Later Abdominal raps about how good he is at rapping without breathing. For the first minute or so this is great and the beat is simple so as to not get in the way of his busy vocal style. However, this grows old quickly with the beat becoming just too boring and the point of his large lung capacity being made a hundred times by the time the song has finished.

The beats on this album sound very much like Jurassic 5 and sometimes stray into downbeat jazz territory. This makes the album easy to listen to and is especially inoffensive when you compare it to other contemporary hip-hop artists such as ‘Lil John and DMX with their shotgun blasts for bass drums and car horns for hi-hats.

Where the timbre is sometimes similar to that of some Jurassic 5, the beats are just too bland and slow.  Having a unique flow is useless unless your joints will make people nod their heads a la Aesop Rock. Maybe Abdominal works better as an artist that features on other people's work rather than as solo artist in his own right. Only time and more releases will tell.