You may know Moka Only, a/k/a Torch, from his days with the Swollen Members. Now, he's going at it on his own. The Station Agent (Camobear) runs like a Dilla beat tape, but this is Torch's world, and with 26 songs (!!!) to choose from, you will have lots of time exploring, and loving the expedition at the same time.

He says in the liner notes that this is the album he's always wanted to do, one that involves his own beats, instrumentation, and harmony vocals as well, and that lack of fear to try out new things and create new musical words is one of the album's more defining moments. Upon entering, he plays around with beats, beats, and more beats, sometimes he feels like rhyming, other times he may sing. For other songs, he may let the beat, bass, and samples take off and they become part of the glue which hold the album together. He believes in what I believe in, in that one can "tell stories through sounds and samples". The album will not be for everyone, it's not just 12 or 14 songs and bail, and while some of these tracks (many of them less than two minutes in length) may serve as interludes on other albums, they are part of the vibe he's trying to create.

It feels like an album he did for himself, raw yet polished, and he decided to share that with the rest of the world. The songs are like those wack-a-moles at Chuck E. Cheese's, you never know when the guy is going to pop up on his own album, and when he does, you rejoice with good tidings.
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Sick beats! Must have album!!
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