The Cool Kids might not have put out an album in the five years as a rap duo, but they certainly have stayed productive, either releasing a mixtape or EP every year since 2005. Tacklebox, the most recent edition to the series of When Fish Ride Bicycles album prelude finds Chuck Inglish and Mikey Rocks with a more mature tone. Unlike 2009’s Gone Fishing Mixtape, Tacklebox’s production draws from the basic beats from The Bake Sale EP, and improves upon it with slick rhymes and soulful, almost Hip-Hop Golden Age-esque mistique. Additionally, Inglish produces the majority of the album, and keeps production cameos to an appropriate level, none of the DON CANNON bullshit.

It’s damn good. Fuck albums, I’ll take a Cool Kids Mixtape. Get it for free HERE