Cypress Hill - Elephants On Acid (2018) Hi Res

Last month, NME asked Cypress Hill‘s Sen Dog what fans could reasonably expect from ‘Elephants On Acid’, the acclaimed rap trio’s first studio album in eight years. His response was simple: “It’s a pure Cypress Hill album from start to end.” And it turns out that he wasn’t lying: ‘Elephants On Acid’ is a record that will delight the legions of fans who have unfailingly stuck by Cypress Hill over their 30-year career. However, it does very little to win over the unconverted.

For the most part, this is because it’s an absolute slog of an album, featuring a marathon 21 tracks of varying quality and weirdness. On early effort ‘Put Em On The Ground’, we’re given the briefest of throwbacks to the iconic West Coast sound that defined the furious flow of their 1991 debut (“Every morning I wake up in a bad mood / Attitude’s fucked up – he’s a bad dude”).