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Lately he's been stepping out as the vocalist of veteran Chicago hip-hop producer No ID's side project Cocaine 80s , which also counts ace hip-hop engineer Rob Kinelski and in-demand session musicians Kevin Randolph and Steve Wyreman among its ranks.

The Flower of Life , their fourth in a series of low stakes free EP releases, is an eccentric collection of songs that get over in large part because of Fauntleroy's fantastic voice.

Common drops in on both, turning in a pair of capable verses if never quite matching his devastating turn on "Summer Madness" from the group's debut, The Pursuit. EP closer "Lucid" is just James and an acoustic guitar with groundswells of tremolo guitar ebbing and flowing underfoot. Later "Higher Self" toys with lumbering, angular math rock.

The Flower of Life 's more experimental passages are largely successful, although "The Distant River" leans too close to solo Sting schmaltz for comfort, and "The Sun and the Moon" sounds as much like hokey post-grunge as anything else. But James Fauntleroy is the beating heart of this project, and his angelic, multi-tracked vocals carry it through sporadic moments of questionable taste, anchoring The Flower of Life 's stylistic hard left turns in an undeniable tunefulness.

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