WIDE Recomienda #0012
1. Tirzah – Gladly
The singer-composer from Essex, Tirzah, has just dropped this one’s video as a heads-up to for the upcoming release of her album Devotion. It sounds like she grew on a Slowdive and Cocteau Twins diet which she now has supplemented with beat music chopping techniques: a weird track with a combination of sampled piano chords dipped in phasers, and a sudden key change with an entirely different sound and a sine wave bassline. Laid on top of that there’s the lyrics: The girl’s in love and she’s not scared to show her hesitation to say it, which is a sweet AF thing to do.
2. Desiigner – Priice Tag
Desiigner can stand up as a meme by his long winded history of deliciously nasty drops and (now improving) bad pronunciation. Jumping the bandwagon of the “I’m made out of money and I make gestures with my hands” rap trope, he’s celebrating the opulence of finally attaining big money after a busy two years of working, transforming and overcoming: reaching that place where your haters may finally get mad. We’re happy for him, but when are rappers ever gonna brag about their quitting porn, taking a barista course or fixing their refrigerator?
3. Byrell The Fake – CUNT-LI BATTLE DUB
Y’all know Byrell the Great, aight? He that Harlem producer that hyped himself up with that Chopped Cheese mixtape about a month ago. Well he’s now taking a departure from his generally punchy but mellow vibes with an eerie and mysterious track released on his Remix Soundcloud, Byrell The Fake. Categorized as Vogue, the track hits us in a very dancehall-ish part of our musical sensibility, with an afro-caribbean drum palette slightly tilted towards a 130 BPM, fit for a intoxicated horror-themed disco at the edge of the world.
4. Buddy – Trouble On Central
The talented Compton artist Buddy dropped a nice little new track on his Youtube channel, a laid back, sweet little song about longing for a better a life and being stuck (on Central) along with a track come straight outta the 90’s G-funk aesthetic, which will make you feel like drinking chocolate milk when the sun starts to set , watching shawties walk on by the streets whilst listening to your walkman.
5. Rejjie Snow – OH NO! (LA Session)
The Irish rapper Reggie Snow comes back into the spotlight with a stream-of-consciousness soliloquy: moping,reflecting, and then just giving up. A beautiful Dana Williams greets us into the track, before it becomes a return to late-night jazz infused hip hop with those crisp, honest-to-god live drum beats, and drunk resonator guitar chords. A real treat for the ear, kinda like Earl Sweatshirt’s Solace (Part 2) with a slightly more sour, awake and rambling lean on depression.
6. BURNS x Maluma x Rae Sremmurd – Hands On Me
If you think there are enough videos of Reggaetón superstars doing the “party with supermodels and smoke fancy cigars in high-class settings” trope, well, these four guys would probably disagree with you. Bolstering their own brand of “pop music sexy boy” by offering this three-in-one package, this song is sure to sell itself off the charts, and if not, the conversation on how male pop-stars are veering away from classical masculinity will finish the job.
