Hellweg

EVERYTHING IS SO FUCKING LOUD

The tunes are probably a bit too loose and improvy for the album to truly stand out in the Dwyer catalogue, and purists will probably question the necessity of tempuraing the hell out of the 4-tracker the album was recorded on. All of that still doesn't detract that much from how utterly satisfying it is to listen to. I'm pretty happy to hear that you can slow Coachwhips down to a crawl and give John Dwyer something resembling a decent microphone without ... read more

The sonic equivalent of grabbing a live wire with both hands. In many ways, Ozigiri pulls off a hell of a balancing act here. The album reaches for basically every single impactful and pop culture adjacent electronic music composition technique that can be flattened onto a 4/4 pulse. Rampant plundering of Mick Gordon's DSP library, x5 speed mentasm blasts, djent breakdown death, screaming stadium d&b synth chords like "In Silico" by Pendulum isn't already 20 years old, ... read more

I think the intimate and hushed facade of this album betrays the absolutely overflowing cornucopia of ideas that it is built on. There just seems to be so much here for so many different types of hip hop and r&b listeners to latch on to. Samba applies his own reduction filter to it all, and it almost always comes out on the other side fitting neatly into the album's overall framework, without streamlining the music to the point that it becomes derivative. The second verse of ... read more

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