CinRoll

easily my favourite song of all time, and has been for years now

“keeping my hopes up cause the adults are talking was their last single for the new abnormal”

Overall a pretty solid project with a well balanced runtime and sequencing, but it feels like basement are looking for their sonic identity again. As hinted by the single The Way I Feel, some tracks aren’t consistently produced to serve their purpose further, and the vocals are, at times, mixed in a way that feels accidentally unfinished rather than intentionally unpolished. Deadweight is a surprisingly great track, it makes you wonder they chose The Way I Feel as a single instead

With the widespread mainstream attention malcolm has gotten over the past year and half, it's easier to foresee a sonically "poppier" realm to his upcoming album, in order to maintain said listeners. This single exemplifies this case the best so far. This ambition is also most likely noticeable through the choice of producers, especially Matthew Castellanos, who partly composed Bad Habit for Steve Lacy, an influence that is more than ever definite here (malcolm is never beating ... read more