When the economy tanks, VIP odes to cocaine and couture can sound depressing. But that doesn’t stop Thunderheist from reliving their boom-time dreams. On this debut, producer Grahm Zilla churns out chilly synth beats while MC Isis flashes the Prada bags and diamond grilles she’s earned through some national hot-chick stimulus package. She “hustles like a ho” for a ride in a Porsche on the boom-bap groove “LBG (Little Booty Girl)” and urges underage girls to woo free drinks out of rich guys on the funky disco “Sweet 16.” If she’s trying to skewer empty luxuries, her delivery is too disengaged to register as ironic or feisty. Even the album’s biggest heavy-breather, “Jerk It,” feels about as erotic as an IKEA instruction manual: “Dust it off/And jerk it/Jerk it/Jerk it.” For supremely lazy lovers? Useful. For everyone else? Creepy.

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