The ‘TNGHT’ EP packs five explosive instrumental hip-hop tracks, every one dripping with each producer’s trademark sonic flourishes.
TNGHT may clock in at under 16 minutes, but it’s the most satisfying quarter-hour blast you’ll hear this year.
Their self-titled debut EP for Warp and LuckyMe spans 16 minutes of some of the year's most brazen, positively huge hip-hop sounds.
TNGHT balances Mohawke’s crisp production style, the gloss of a high-end studio, and Lunice’s chopped-and-screwed beats, without any time to overload the work with excess triggers.
In short, it’s big, dumb, and a lot of fun, but the overriding feel to TNGHT is that it feels closer to being the start of something great than a great record in itself.
This might be the worst EP/album I have ever exposed my ears to. This EP is so bad, there literally isn’t anything on this EP which would make listening to it worthwhile, it is that bad. It sounds like they haven’t done any mixing whatsoever. It sounds like they just found a few sounds from a basic sample pack and just threw it in there and called it a day, it is that bad. I’d recommend you stay as far away from this EP as you can, unless you want to have an ear-grating ... read more
Favorite: goooo
Least favorite: easy easy
This is what made all the critics nut in their draws? I mean it’s fun and cool but it’s really nothing too special.
Innovative at the time, helping to kickstart the Trap EDM genre. You'll either love it or hate, it is intentionally designed to be obnoxious, distorted, loud, abrasive. For how oversaturated this genre of music becomes later down the decade, this album still holds up to this day (though I'm not in love with the intro nor ending tracks).
Fun giraffe fact; we sometimes play this EP in the wild to scare off lions and cheetahs.
Big cats don't like Hudson Hohawke, it turns out.
I think you will either like this or be annoyed by it, I don't think there's much of a middle ground here. It's unapologetic in how obnoxious it is. It can be noisy and abrasive, when it's not, it just sounds distorted for the sake of being distorted. The mixing seems like it was an afterthought, everything was left on loud and someone forgot to adjust ... read more
1 | Top Floor 1:53 | 71 |
2 | Goooo 3:21 | 82 |
3 | Higher Ground 3:19 | 82 |
4 | Bugg'n 3:25 | 77 |
5 | Easy Easy 3:51 | 74 |
#25 | / | Complex |
#31 | / | Consequence of Sound |
#35 | / | Gigwise |
#35 | / | Pitchfork |