WIDE Recomienda: #0024
This week on WIDE Recommends a couple of singles from ascending names in the industry and a collection of tracks spread across the domains of electronica, trip-hop, RnB and hip-hop, each begging for its own screenplay to be featured in. Take a looksie!
1. J.I.D. – 151 Rum
Should you ever find yourself lacking some background music whilst passing blunts in a bouncing lowrider on a warm summer day with your dudes and/or dudettes, well, look no further, for J.I.D. gotchu covered onnat. 151 Rum is quite the expectation-setting first single for his upcoming, second studio album DiCaprio 2. Should the rest of the album be as good as this one, it could define the feel of 2019.
2. BROCKHAMPTON – J’OUVERT
Showing some muscle after the departure of Ameer Van, BROCKHAMPTON’s released Iridiscence to the joy of fans and it’s already picked a nifty Fantano score. Commenting on the ‘de-hoodification’ of rap music (with Merlyn Wood poking fun at ‘bitches licking Oreos’) and the difficulty of keeping one’s grip as an independent music collective in the midst of a churning industry and the media hype, this track makes for a nice summary of the album’s feel.
3. Noname – Window
Stop looking at the window, go find yourself dice Phoelix en el coro, como una voz ligeramente disociada en su cabeza intentando encaminarla.On this track, Noname comes across more prominently as a poet than a rapper. The verses tell us her subjective perspective of the unrequited love that makes the world go ‘round, coming and going in and out of the first and second person to the third with those ever reappearing thoughts of “I wish you’re happy” that can and will probably mess you up, no matter who you are, even if you’re surfing the top of the rap game’s wave. Stop looking at the window, go find yourself, goes the hook, by Phoelix; like a voice in her head, trying to get back on track.
4. Gallant – TOGOODTOBETRUE
A sugary R&B track with guest appearances of Surfjan Stevens and Rebecca Sugar for augmented diabetes-inducing properties! With his usual dramatic delivery, Gallant addresses a lover who’s either going through a bit of a crisis or just becoming a shut-in. If you can relate to the lyrics, this might be a good song to cry your guts out then get embarrassed and pretend like nothing happened.
5. Penelope Trapes – Connector
The Golden Filter’s silky voiced singer and songwriter Penelope Trappes is just about to release her second album, which shows great promise in the acousmatics and long sustained reverbs department. Fit for many a cinematic scenes, “Connector” is probably the track that gets mangled in that 20 second romantic sex scene before a fade to black or the sondersome pause where the character drives around the nocturnal cityscape, thinking about the very plotty plot and how they’ll manage to give back that million dollars to the evil mob underboss on their trail without getting rekt.
6. Reyn Hartley – Snitch
Continuing on a trip-hoppy vibe comes the NY producer based Reyn Hartley, on a piece fit for dark corridor scenes and neo-noir suspense coupled with a display of fancypants accesorizing and paparazzi chases. The singer dashes out of the unknown and into the light with a fully developed sound that is catching on rather nicely. We’ll surely be seeing more of this one.
