YMU Album Playlist: Ugly Duckling - 'Bang For The Buck'

Wandering around YMU randomly, managed to spot that Ugly Duckling's new album 'Bang For The Buck' [YMU link], put out via NY hiphop label Fat Beats, is now streamable - and it's another classic from the all-white, all-goofy Long Beach hiphop crew.

Ugly Duckling specialize in the polar opposite to thugged-out bling hiphop - in fact, when I saw them live in San Francisco a few years ago, they did a great version of 'A Little Samba' from the awesome 'Journey To Anywhere' album [YMU link], also available on YMU in an extended version, which aped the 'Cash Rules Everything Around Me' attitude of a lot of contemporary hiphop - also check 'Big Bank Take Little Bank' on 'Journey To Anywhere' - same concept, hilarious!

Of course, this means that UD aren't really mainstream, at least not in the U.S. - though they're actually reasonably popular in Europe and Australia, where the hiphop pop hooks go down quite well. But the new album seems like another great alternative hiphop release, and I, at least, highly recommend it.