Review: Sharkula x Mukqs – Take Caution on the Beach – SLUG Magazine
Hausu Mountain Sharkula x Mukqs = Best Available Technology + Lil B Take Caution on the Beach—though no less loose or unhinged than its predecessor—feels like a refinement of the style Chicago-based musicians Sharkula ( Brian Wharton) and Mukqs ( Max Allison) teased out on their first collaborative release, 2019’s Prune City. The MC (Sharkula) and the producer (Mukqs) both possess a style awash in eccentricity to the point of absurdity, and the combination of the two makes for outsider hip-hop unlike most. Mukqs’ production sputters and glitches through a web of lo-fidelity synthesiz...