Animals is a compelling conversation between the creator and his psyche, his musicians, and listeners.
All jazz drama and velveteen underground rap, Animals is a glittering record also littered by features from top names in both fields.
Animals continues seamlessly, using a raft of guest musicians and rappers, its rhythms shuttling between drum kit and electronica.
Kassa Overall creates a record worthy of your time and that of anyone interested in free-thinking music. Animals pushes jazz and hip-hop further.
Why's bro tryna be Kanye? 🤨🤨🤔🤔
I would compare this in a lot of aspects to billy woods' new album "Maps" as Kassa Overall blends quite a few different styles together to create this wild amalgamation of styles that shouldn't work given how they're put together, but he finds a way to make something that sounds disjointed, like it was planned from the beginning.
Sure, the songs are quite weird, with electronic elements mixed in with Jazz and Soul on top of a Hip-Hop ... read more
Kassa Overall's "Animals" goes softly hard.
The sound covered by Kassa in this LP is intriguing. While there is a smoothness and velvet texture present in trumpets and other instruments that come from the influence of Nu Jazz, there are moments when the drums border on the industrial, or even Trap-like.
But most of the moments here are just mellow and soft, never becoming empty or ambient, but rather in a more Neo Soul quality. And yet, the stripped-back vibe isn't limited to the ... read more
i understand the critisms for this but at the same time i was not bored once throughout this thing
favorite track: clock ticking
Really smooth and really fun. Such a unique album with interesting ideas. I do hope in the future he makes more dynamic sounds. This one felt a little one dimensional.
1 | Anxious Anthony 0:09 feat. Anthony Ware | 66 |
2 | Ready To Ball 3:27 | 84 |
3 | Clock Ticking 3:36 feat. Danny Brown, Wiki | 85 |
4 | Still Ain't Find Me 1:46 | 81 |
5 | Make My Way Back Home 3:56 feat. Theo Croker, Nick Hakim | 87 |
6 | The Lava Is Calm 3:06 feat. Theo Croker | 83 |
7 | No It Ain't 1:28 feat. Andrae Murchison | 80 |
8 | So Happy 4:08 | 80 |
9 | It's Animals 0:33 | 71 |
10 | Maybe We Can Stay 3:58 feat. J. Hoard | 73 |
11 | The Score Was Made 3:07 feat. Vijay Iyer | 78 |
12 | Going Up 6:13 | 89 |
#43 | / | MOJO |