An album for the future. An album for, when I am wrinkled and grey, my grandkids to wake up to, the smell of breakfast in the air, laughter and possibility humming in their bones.
I enjoyed myself moderately enough, but I keep thinking back to the fact that this album supposedly took Cole years and years and years to make and I keep scratching my head and wondering why.
Like his last record, Kahan's newest album had to first wear down my carapace of cycinism before it could grow on me, like moss, or yes, love.
(OG Rating: 74)
Self-sabotaging length aside, I was at first frustrated because the beats kept hypnotizing me away from the writing, but maybe that's the point. Maybe they're asking us to pay attention. To be alert.
Or maybe I'm just an idiot. I think Mike's disc had the better instrumentals and Earl's had the better writing.
I imagine it'd be nigh impossible for any record to live up to a near decade long wait. Rocky though, with his unending charisma and inventive production makes you believe it's no trouble at all for him, and in a genre where fifty percent of the work is confidence, that might just be the same as him actually pulling it off.