The whole concept of the album is making the chosen name its program. As the group is called 'Species', and the album "A New Type: Experiment One", you know that it's trying to do something on the more sci-fi tip. But while Geiger's creature for certainly both "Alien" and "Species" were scary and brilliant, still, "Alien" was a classic, "Species" wasn't. Kinda like this album.

But to be fair, we shall give it the needed thorough listen: Opening with a movie sequence, that is succeeded with quirky sounds, this shows promise, just falling short, but going in the right direction. The rappers included on this track "Species", that's featuring LA and Johnny Numonic, struggle from even quirkier voices and neither accomplishes to make an impact. The "Wut Else Intro", again featuring Johnny, then honestly states: "I'm just a bum trying to make it". And we do acknowledge that. And again the quirky sound, while badly mixed, is okay, but the drum just doesn't work. "Wut Else (Could I Be Doin' Kid)" then is the first track really giving us something something. The organs might be repetitive, the mixing is still not finished, but the track allows itself to expand with different cinematic sounds. Lyrically skills are present, just the angry topic wouldn't have been needed.

Next we get "Suckers Blood" that shows more of the immaturity with constant cussing and unneeded derogatory rambling, not to say that its sounds unbelievable beyond explanation. Once more the drum is flawing on "No. 5" feat. Evil G, with the keyboard strings totally being annoying. Being 'entertainers with no audience' they confess on "World Of Mine". And this track can't attract much of an audience too, with more pissed off braggadocios, at least without the cursing at first, but then again resurfacing on the chorus. On the other hand "That's Me" starts promising and if a different sound would have been chosen for the main keys, maybe a piano or something, this would be dope, with the lyrics working, giving you even some real thought. Again, this shows promise.

And once more an unneeded sound layer takes away our liking from "Escape From LA", as some bell, some chimes, some something should have been left off. Lyrically a mixture of bragging and trying to even make sense of the title, this could have been better, but for this album, it's one of the strongest tracks. "My Girl" shall be ignored by us, with it just being totally obnoxious and not even worth listening to with such lyrics. This totally lacks the expressive brilliance that could excuse this ignorance.

With "You Can't Understand '99", there's not much to comment about. And on "You Can't Understand 2000" things get flipped a bit, and S.Nova and Iron Mic are put on the track, and they are still bragging. Then the most ironic track comes on next ("Two Thumbs Down"), as the Species tried to be sarcastic themselves, what totally backfires. They say "I'm wack, I can't rap, you're right: I suck". It then goes on to talk about how the Species get dissed and that people consider them to not be the dopest. But with this track, that features an okay beat though, they just give you more reason to not like them, despite they questioning your / our credibility. However, this ends up being funny, quite unintended of course.

Then moving on to the title track "A New Type", where we return to the movie sample again, this features the guests Johnny Numanic, S.Nova, LA. Finally there's "Species B" left, that starts off cool, with once more too many sounds making the effort confusingly bleepy. S.Nova, Johnny and LA are on here again too, this time also Bobby Whoa being featured.

So the conclusion has to be that this is falling severely short to have us amazed, as often unneeded additions, few subject changes, flows that stumble over rhythms and words, as well as an often too stupid angry gibberish, is having us respect it as the first attempt to create something. But while there's promise at times, there is still enough on here, that doesn't. And so we have to wait to find out if the Species progressed through time, and we will soon enough, as we will be reviewing their new album soon. As for this one.....oh well.