Album Notes

From The Portland Mercury:

With the release of their debut LP, Intelligent Decline, Portland/Seattle emcee duo Gray Matters float creatively into waters that are familiar to fans of Northwest favorites Oldominion. Dour rhymes blend with a well-chosen landscape of beats to create an album that maybe should have dropped in mid-November, given its grizzled tone. The A-class production by Simple and Sapient (of Sandpeople fame) makes the album so strong at its core that if Vanilla Ice dropped a new disc with those guys supplying beats, he'd be up to his neck-tattoos in street cred. Altogether Intelligent Decline is a solid and complete—if not totally amazing—effort that shows the continued growth of the Northwest rap scene as a whole.
-Graham Barey