Over the course of his career, Sage Francis has migrated from one of underground hip-hop's most mainstream sounding rappers to someone who sounds as integrated with the indie rock world as other one-time experimental rappers WHY? and Doseone. Check Li(f)etrack "Love the Lie" as an example, where Francis takes a track sent to him by Sparklehorse's late bandleader Mark Linkous and applies his own intensely focused touch to it. The robots-in-love accompanying video is just heartbreaking enough to fit the song's grandiose guitars and Sage's penchant for dramatic storytelling. [24Bit]
