Sole (hip-hop artist)


James Timothy "Tim" Holland Jr., better known by his stage name Sole, is an American underground hip hop artist from Portland, Maine. He is one of eight co-founders of the record label Anticon. He has been a member of the groups Northern Exposure, Live Poets, Deep Puddle Dynamics, So-Called Artists, Da Babylonianz, Sole and the Skyrider Band and Waco Boyz.

Career

In 2000, Sole released his first official solo album Bottle of Humans on Anticon. As So-Called Artists, he released Paint by Number Songs with Alias and DJ Mayonnaise in 2001. Sole's second solo album Selling Live Water was released in 2003 and received positive reviews; Pitchfork Media gave it a 7.3, Metacritic gave it a score of 77 out of 100.
Later that year, he moved to Barcelona. Two years later, he released the third solo album Live from Rome in 2005. Soon after, he moved back to the United States, relocating to Flagstaff, Arizona.
In 2007, Sole released Sole and the Skyrider Band as Sole and the Skyrider Band. Its second album Plastique was released in 2009. In 2010, Sole left Anticon, citing a desire to further experiment with his music, independently of the collective, and also due to his belief that the label developed away from what he initially intended it to be.

Personal life

Sole is based in Brunswick, Maine. He married Yasamin Al-Hussaini on January 1, 2004, and her name is referenced occasionally in his lyrics. While living in Denver, Sole was active in the local outpost of the Occupy Wall Street political movement, various anarchist projects and hosts a podcast about revolutionary politics and radical philosophy called "The Solecast." He is an anarchist.

Selected discography

Sole
  • Bottle of Humans
  • uck rt
  • Selling Live Water
  • Mansbestfriend Pt. 2: No Thanks
  • Live from Rome
  • Mansbestfriend Pt. 3: Myownworstenemy
  • Poly.Sci.187
  • Desert Eagle
  • A Ruthless Criticism of Everything Existing
  • No Wising Up No Settling Down
  • Crimes Against Totality
  • Mansbestfriend 7
  • Let Them Eat Sand
  • Destituent
  • MBFX
Sole & DJ Pain 1
Sole and the Skyrider Band
  • Sole and the Skyrider Band
  • Plastique
  • Hello Cruel World
Whitenoise
  • No More Dystopias
  • Ruins
Other collaborations
  • What's It All About
  • The Taste of Rain... Why Kneel?
  • Red Dawn: A Baybridge Epic
  • ''Paint by Number Songs''