Back on my Here’s Johnny shit. The man who reached out to me a while ago, now and since then I’ve experienced a range of different sounds and styles, and today, it’s time to start a new. So let’s talk about it!
This time around, we have him working with producer LUNAR, a man who is new to me, but I was sure excited to check out and see what he’s all about. It and across these new 10 tracks, I have to say I’m impressed.
Firstly, the production feels spectacular in a way I haven’t heard from a Johnny project before. It has a unique fusion of 80’s Synth Pop/Electronic vibes to Classic Jazz Boom Bap. If you can imagine what those two combined sound like, you’d get this. The two contradictory inspirations somehow work well together because they are separated between songs, so we never get those two sounds on the same track, which works well and also means there’s proper time to make sure each time the theme is switched up, LUNAR focuses on one style at a time instead of working about fusing both.
Like when a song such as ‘SINGIN’ ASS BOY’ plays, you can hear that grimey cold Boom Bap sound with that dope as chorus and chilling repetitive strings that make for an East Coast hardcore feel to the instrumental.
But then you can have tracks like ‘Psycho Sid 2 Sid Justice,’ which has that mentioned 80’s Synth vibe like if Tears For Fears went Hip Hop, this is what their music would sound like!
There are many examples of track variety like that, but somehow it never sounds ‘cluttered’ or ‘awkward ’ with the extreme spectrum sounds but instead feels original and interesting!
Now, Here’s Johnny back and this time not alone, featuring:
-Mike G, The Writer
-Dot-Com Intelligence
-Devo XO
-Quazil D.Sol
-Matt Mars
-Yung Regis
-Lord WHO
And across this project, we hear Here’s Johnny provide more energy and passion than most. It feels like a lot of the reason is because the main topic seems to be about ‘snitching’, and as someone who agrees that’s a bitch act, I understand the emotion reaction behind the treason, so his heightened reactions and more specific and precise lyricism and sharper flow definitely make sense.
His delivery on this one kind of reminds me of 2010’s Denzel Curry. When he had that run of going ballistic on the beats and sounding enraged and angry but in a dope way. That’s how his flow reminds me on this one, not on every track, but on a lot, he’s wearing his passion on his sleeve, and it shows!
All the features on here are beyond dope, but fuck, I love that Dot Com is on this one, especially considering Wulverine was on his latest album as production credits, and now Dot is on Here’s Johnny’s project; it’s a wonderful full circle!
Regardless, another dope project and dope collab by Here’s and LUNAR. They bring a fantastic atmosphere and aesthetic to the album and another addition to an ever-growing quality discography!
https://thecelestialsanctum.bandcamp.com/album/hollow-man-m-d
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