When you set your collaboration bar as high as , all future collabos are subject to over-scrutiny, but spent 2012 rekindling his love of the super-hero team-up, joining for the single and partnering with abstract rapper/producer for this slab of smart and wild. Make that U.K.-inspired smart and wild as the now 41-year-old reflects upon his birthplace of London in the year his hometown is hosting the Olympics, although there's no -ish wide-eyed sense of wonder here. There is, however, 's , who lends some songwriting and a mumbled hook to "Bite the Thong," the album's crooked, key track. is on board too, cracking through the track "GMO" with her icy siren song as goes forks over knifes in a fashion, warning "Whoever uses canola oil, you're soul will boil/For a longer time than it takes a diet cola to spoil" before making jealous with the simple and direct "Breeds of a needless variety/In the name of greed we get a seedless society." No surprise then that the angry, environmental-minded cut falls on the bitter side of prickly, and welcoming moments -- like the electro-rocking "Rhymin Slang" -- are scant on , to the point where if you're not insider, it could be to a fault. is a fair partner and best as a hypeman or techno-minded partner behind the scenes, and while "Guv'nor" is so Brit it smells of fish, chips, and Beckhams, it's a distracting or absent concept elsewhere. Still, drops "Depends on your status or your stacks, sir/Whether you benefit from the prior or the latter-er" as if it was nothing, and with plenty more of these moments hidden inside, fans will find that goes from confusing letdown to intriguing mystery after just a couple listens. ~ David Jeffries