Mezzanine feels like waking up in a cold sweat after lucid dreaming through your alarm. Its experimental production is a fever dream that walks a delicate tightrope of some of the strangest fusions I've ever heard. It's mesmerising.
This album is the embodiment of a toddler. It will piss you off by throwing a tantrum or drawing on the walls. But every now and then, they will say something so profound it'll make you contemplate your life and beliefs... And then they'll shit themselves. 100 gecs can sound like noise for the sake of noise, but sometimes that noise hits just the spot you needed it to. I think we'll look back on this album as one of the most influential of its time. I don't think the ... read more
I find bitterness a deeply complicated emotion. It's angry, openly hostile, resentful and Skinty Fia encapsulates all of it. I found this album in a very strange time in my life and its cohesive discontent really resonated with me. This album is packed with layers of anti-colonial irony and character that I don't think any album does better.
I find this album incredibly refreshing. It feels like a love-letter. Bridges' vocal performance is so sure of itself, I actually find it difficult to believe that this is his debut album. It manages to paint a picture of a cultural tenderness and idealism that we should all be striving towards. It's an album that encourages you to tell your crush you love them, forgive a loved one, and to take things a little less seriously. Aggressively chalant and full of personality.
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