glassharmonica

new songs only

Westside Trapped is very distinctly inspired by african music - most notably afrobeat - and most notably Fela Kuti. The first track alone references Water No Get Enemy and Expensive Shit, and there are almost certainly more tracks throughout that contain other references that I missed. For about 5 tracks, it gives a modern take on Afrobeat. It has an indie-ish, hazy, maybe scaled back aspect, an unmistakenably electronic production, for better or for worse, and incorporates elements of ... read more

Way more scattered and untraditional than their last, darklight feels like if darksin w/ lightskin problems' demos were stitched to an ambient idm soundtrack. It has most of the same flaws of darksins, which are, at least for me, length and several underdeveloped songs, with the main difference being a more unreliable execution. There are more songs on this to me that feel almost unfinished or underdeveloped, but I can see the merit of it being a stylistic choice. I do think that what ... read more

Very scattered and at times abrasive, but some of the ideas that are going on in this album are pure gold. The album's length and several of its particularly experimental moments that seem developed drag it down for me, but when all the cool concepts going on in this album, like the glitchy collages mixed with R&B or the ambient beauties mixed with unrestrained vocals, are met with the perfect execution, like they are in southern style lemon peppers or back in action, there's some ... read more