It's hard to find descriptive context for this album without referencing Kirby's artist intention, but i've found by playing the album in front of friends and family that it doesn't need the context to be enjoyable judging by people continually asking "Who is this?" and writing the name down.
At it's most literal, the album is a meticulous collection of sampled 78's of pre-war music repeated until the record wears itself down, vocals speaking gibberish, piano pitched down.
But to ... read more
A welcome return from an artist who left us with an album so 'post-club' that the only way you'd be able to feel the rhythm in it would by placing your hand on the subwoofer. (Why can't people just be sad on the dancefloor like it used to be?)
It feels like Actress destroyed himself by fire after Ghettoville, and through the necromancy incantation tactics of mind minions Levantis, BANK OF ENGLAND, etc. he rose from a T-1000 mercury puddle.
The synths are chipper and the compression is ... read more
anticon. head doseone continuing down the same different path with different fellow Mestizo, head in the smoke clouds production by Alias. A quick pace ADHD-mindset renders the album very listenable despite a sound that may have long assimilated into rap consciousness half a decade ago, but hearing the duo catch a few new lyrical tricks makes it fun to follow. It's almost as if the artists understand the fickleness of rap's conventions and injected hip-hop currency into 5 second blips littered ... read more
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