Brotha Lynch Hung COATHANGA STRANGLA

Recording information: Sanctuary Recording Studios; Soundfile Studios, Los Angeles.Photographer: Nicholas Vedros.A line like "So when I'm comin' in your window with a machete and a pistol/Best believe it's just to get me a nut" is only sensible when it lands on a release from the Strange Music label. If that release happens to be a Brotha Lynch Hung album, then it's probably the chorus, and a chorus with a wicked hook -- as it happens to be on "The Coathanga," one of the Coathanga Strangla album's many highlights. This is the second part of a trilogy begun on Lynch's previous blast of horror hip-hop, the slightly superior Dinner and a Movie. Here, things are just too dark for the faint of heart to be swayed, as "Mannibalector" gives a bite-by-bite lesson in anatomy while "Spit It Out" offers a serial killer's version of "Cleanin' Out My Closet," although here, the skeletons are real. Fellow deviant Tech N9ne shows up on "Takin' Online Orders," which is drop-dead funny, but to make it t