Claude says:Flobots came together in Denver in 2005 when Jamie "Jonny 5" Laurie revamped an earlier project, adding MC Brer Rabbit, a viola, trumpet, and a full band around his experimental hip hop vision. This debut EP mixes spoken-word urgency with live instrumentation — conscious, political, and still searching for the sound that would make "Handlebars" explode a year later. You caught it right as it dropped in 2008, but those three plays were more curiosity than commitment.