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Safari Man
Just a music lover. If it's done with passion and soul (and a strong bassline too), then probably it's some good quality vibrations.
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The fourth length album of the Canadian writer Abel Makkonen Tesfaye is out and is some-what intriguing.
The opener is an epic track that really catches your attention for what, one could imagine, a work about love and all its mischiefs and disappointments. Although the later it's true, your hype goes away really fast, since the first half of the album turned out to be a really monotone vanilla R&B piece of work, with its lyrical content being very blend, with come silly rhymes in between, which really doesn't help. Fortunately, the album reemerge from the moment the single "Blinding Lights" start to play, with its funky beats and synths, reminding us the of the classic sound from the 80's. The following tracks also show this nostalgic sound, mixing it up with jazzy tunes and some more weird synthesizers. Another great work coming out "After Hours" is the track with the same name, which really is a piece of art, mixing electronic with pop (and a sublime basseline). The album ends with a sad ballad, and, although appropriate, it remind us that the first part of this LP was really a turn down with no spice whatsoever. Sadly it also revels the lack of general direction of this project, which the latest two works of The Wekeend didn't.
So, for me, it really is a step-back in terms of artistic evolution, in spite of some really good tracks on this.
TRACK OF THE SPOTLIGHT: Not being an easy pick, since "After Hours" is such a good thought out work and incredibly well put mix of two genres, the single "Bliinding Lights" win this one. What a thrilling banger this is. Almost a 10/10 track! It immerses you with catchy synths and a really nice beat behind it. It makes you fell like you are illegally racing on your Nissan R32 with your pick shirt. Great tune really.
The opener is an epic track that really catches your attention for what, one could imagine, a work about love and all its mischiefs and disappointments. Although the later it's true, your hype goes away really fast, since the first half of the album turned out to be a really monotone vanilla R&B piece of work, with its lyrical content being very blend, with come silly rhymes in between, which really doesn't help. Fortunately, the album reemerge from the moment the single "Blinding Lights" start to play, with its funky beats and synths, reminding us the of the classic sound from the 80's. The following tracks also show this nostalgic sound, mixing it up with jazzy tunes and some more weird synthesizers. Another great work coming out "After Hours" is the track with the same name, which really is a piece of art, mixing electronic with pop (and a sublime basseline). The album ends with a sad ballad, and, although appropriate, it remind us that the first part of this LP was really a turn down with no spice whatsoever. Sadly it also revels the lack of general direction of this project, which the latest two works of The Wekeend didn't.
So, for me, it really is a step-back in terms of artistic evolution, in spite of some really good tracks on this.
TRACK OF THE SPOTLIGHT: Not being an easy pick, since "After Hours" is such a good thought out work and incredibly well put mix of two genres, the single "Bliinding Lights" win this one. What a thrilling banger this is. Almost a 10/10 track! It immerses you with catchy synths and a really nice beat behind it. It makes you fell like you are illegally racing on your Nissan R32 with your pick shirt. Great tune really.
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