I LAY DOWN MY LIFE FOR YOU was one of my favourite albums of 2024, so I have been eagerly anticipating the director’s cut, what JPEGMAFIA has claimed to be the album’s original vision, one where the fat hasn’t been trimmed. This review will not examine the album as a whole (I’ve listened to it a lot, and think it’s shocking, witty, insane, out-there, and at points, gorgeous) but rather focus on the new songs that have been added to the original tracklist.
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