You know, once you do this long enough, you start praying for something exciting to cover. Concept albums are my favourite type of music, and so you best believe before I even listened to the music, I was hyped! So let’s talk about it!
So, this is the latest album by MIYAGISUN X GHOSTMACHINE! The latter I’ve only had experience with once before on a single featuring Here’s Johnny, but otherwise, he’s still very fresh, and first, I can’t say I’ve dealt with him before, but regardless, they’ve dropped an 11-track experience with a ton of interesting content and cinematic appeal that will appeal to the ‘storyteller’ fans in the scene.
Right off the gate from the first track, this thing feels theatrical and movie-like. The aspects of well-produced, crystal-clear dramatic audio cuts and snippets fused into the music as if you’re listening to a new action-packed trailer on your Bandcamp app.
You can tell Ghost was going for an ‘Action/Thriller’ type vibe on this album that’s full of suspense, cliffhangers, and adrenaline-rush momentum that could replace your energy drink addiction in a heartbeat with the amount of dopamine and endurance this story gives the listener— it’s wild!
Across the Tarantino atmosphere, the actual music itself and its variety of Boom Bap and Modern Hip Hop is done with excellent production, technical skill, and sound quality that can actually be portrayed as theater-like to begin with; it’s not like he’s just focusing on the ‘cutscene’ parts or the intense dialogue but instead trying to make sure the album ‘as a whole’ is as colourful and larger than life as possible, and I feel that dream was executed immaculately across this concept record!
Now, onto the rapping (which features the following):
-anomolly
-J shxnobi
-Lex Swank
-Fingerson
-Stadix
And MIYAGISUN alongside these men helps embrace and innovate the same conceptual narrative as the production! With fantastic and at times animated performances to capture that true film spirit.
There’s parts of this record where I hear them trying to rap stories as verses similar to what Sticky Fingaz did on his album ‘Black Trash: The Autobiography of Kirk Jones’, where every sentence rhymed.
I feel the same energy on this, depending on the track you’ll hear passages and back and forths in this style and I honestly dig it! It just adds to the mood and the consistency of the record to put this much effort and discipline into making the whole project work even if it means putting in that extra bit of effort!
On top of all that, the flows are fluent, the lyricism is excellent and the vocals themselves are fun, thrilling, engaging and above all else done well, which is probably the most important part, you can be the reincarnation of Shakespeare but if you sound ass, your ass.
The Verdict. This album is astronomically fire! (Get it Ass-Tronimically?) anyway, pun aside, I mean it. I love the concept it was conveying, which I didn’t want to spoil because I wanted the listeners to find out on their own and be surprised!
And the performances involved are all top tier and deserve to be checked out at the very least!
https://miyagixghostmachine.bandcamp.com/album/circle-of-blood-kung-fu
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