Hip-hop group Cyne follow-up their 2005 album Evolution Fight on City Centre Offices with an album on the ever-improving Project Mooncircle label. Cyne's raps hearken back to the time when hip-hop was a cultural voice and not just a chance to brag about how many cars or women you've had. Cyne's productions are crisp and fresh, but also firmly rooted in the DJ Premier style of production so prevalent in the mid 90s, which is never a bad thing. Cyne waxes both political and philosophical, avoiding the trappings of traditional underground hip-hop by not even mentioning the fact that what they do is underground by not being self-conscious and just focusing on the elements that make successful hip-hop: fresh beats and fresh rhymes. Case in point: Cyne reprises their raps for Deceptikon's "Montana", and what should be a stale track because of the re-used rhymes is actually a rbeorn track, with the new beats taking the track in an entirely different direction. From laid back to serious in their rhymes, Cyne is a message for those that think the genre has nothing left.

Houstonian Jneiro Jarel (Dr. Who Dat?) returns with a psychedelic excursion through hip-hop with Craft of the Lost Art. The rapping by Panama Black, Rocque One, Jawaad, and many others take a backseat to the worldly beats by Jarel that range from the funky to the nautical. The likeness to other beat crafters like J Dilla and Madlib are warranted, since Jarel is one of the freshest in the hip-hop business. This album is the best when listening to on headphones in the middle of night because of the mellow flows and excellent production. Although the album starts slow (the MF Doom track in the beginning is pretty weak), the songs progressively get deeper into the sounds of around the globe.