Music Review

Sins of the Father (1997)

EW's GRADE
B-

Details Lead Performance: Camus; Genres: Folk, Hip-Hop/Rap

This New Orleans ex-truck driver isn't as mired in existential gloom as his name suggests, though the rhythmic strumming and drawling of his vengeful ''U Who'' add up to a snide species of folk-rap. More often, though, Camus' slacker slurs in Sins of the Father are a sketchy hybrid of Beck and Tom Petty, both of whom mimic mid-'60s Dylan with miles more eccentric momentum. B

Originally posted May 30, 1997 Published in issue #381 May 30, 1997 Order article reprints

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