Philly's hip-hop pioneers, The Roots, have a new CD out

Read the review of The Roots' new CD "Tipping Point," which starts like this:

Always expect the unexpected from the Roots. On their genre-expanding 2002 album “Phrenology,” the Philadelphia hip-hop band flirted with punk, downshifted neo-soul into a drum n’ bass workout, and imagined their guitar-riffing hip-hop as rock ’n’ roll’s offspring. The disc was heady, ambitious and undeniably progressive.

Now on “The Tipping Point,” instead of further tinkering with song structure and metaphor, they’ve opted to make their sound more accessible.

MSNBC.com review of The Roots' 'Tipping Point'.