To call Subtle's new mini-album, Yell and Ice, a collection of remixes is unfairly narrow. Its tracks often take only a peripheral tangent or a tiny chunk of lyrics from a song on the Oakland hip-hop collective's masterful For Hero: For Fool album, and then spin off into a completely unique orbit. "Deathful" takes a blink and you'll miss it, loincloth-clad jungle survivor image from their previous cut "Midas Gutz" and expands it to a feature length meditation on being cold enough to get ahead. The lyrics come faster and harder than previously, making the eventual entry of a manically nasal chorus from lyricist Doseone seem almost pretty. "When you first arm yourself to kill, you would be lucky to fall even the young or the ill," he sing-spits over a rapidly shifting backdrop. You only notice how spastic Dose is being when thundervoiced TV on the Radio singer Tunde Adebimpe enters with a slow and velvety chorus of his own (that might be him laying down subliminal moans in the background all along as well). When the vocals overlap, their diametrically opposed tones are surprisingly complementary. That interaction is just one worthy point of focus in a "remix" more original, varied and endlessly fascinating than entire from scratch albums by artists whose sales outweigh the group's by a factor of ten. No one ever claimed being Subtle (or sadly, Subtle) was the way to the hearts of the masses.