Album Review: Secret House Against The World by Buck 65

Over the past decade, Rich Terfry, a former baseball player from Nova Scotia, has built an impressive cult following with his unique amalgam of hip-hop, country music and blues; few fanbases can claim to include Thom Yorke, Vincent Gallo and Christina Aguilera. His seventh album, however, isn't the stone-cold classic he keeps threatening to deliver. Terfry's waning enthusiasm for hip-hop ("I've grown to hate it," he told one magazine last year) means that much of Secret House Against the World, co-produced by Tortoise, is conventionally doleful Americana, decorated with token scratching.

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