You know, sometimes in an artist’s career, they decide it’s time for a temporary or permanent switch-up in their musical endeavours. Whether this one is long-term or one-off, we have yet to see, but based on the info I read about this release, it got me curious to see how this artist navigated the other lane, so to speak. So let’s talk about it!
This is the latest album by Sy Ari Da Kid, with all songs being produced by FeralJag, featuring 11 new songs with the likes of:
-K CAMP
-Jastin Martin
-Joe Trufant
And this album is an R&B record! So a completely different switch-up than the one I reviewed months ago. He’s embracing his more sensual and sexual side, baring his open and brutally honest thoughts alongside some smooth, skeletal, and emotional production that definitely has that modern-day alternative R&B vibes with the acoustic, synth chord combinations that are more attributed to acts like:
-Frank Ocean
-SZA
-Summer Walker type sounds, and it suits. What’s happening across this album is he’s letting his soul and consciousness decide the atmosphere of the record, as the lyricism and instrumentation go hand in hand in creating the ‘structure’ of this record, as one can’t work without the other.
From the opening song, we have that revealing female vocal snippet with her confession, which sets the tone for the album, as we immediately have Sy telling us his intentions and guilty pleasures all over the track.
Lyrically, this kind of reminds me of SZA’s ‘SOS’ album or the one even before that, ‘Ctrl’, in the aspect of pure unadulterated honesty, for better or for worse. Sy isn’t concerned about keeping his thoughts or intentions to himself and is making a risky move being so open, but the fact that he is going all the way with it gains a bit of respect for the courage to make an album of this magnitude!
The sounds on this are very smooth, sweet an even hypnotic at times. Very reminiscent of the albums I mentioned above, it’s the kind of album (instrumentally speaking) you could play and just sit back and relax and let the magic of the album bring you in and your body relax and your mind wonder.
A lot of fun and methodical RnB vibes with killer tunes, infectious beats and larger than life presentation of such sounds makes this a stand out production effort by FeralJag and the features definitely do their part in helping elevate this album to that next level!
All in all, for a switch up of this caliber I feel it was done exquisitely! The singing and vocal performances were on point, the music itself was immaculate and the features were golden! Can’t complain about this one and hopefully the rest of ya’ll can keep an open mind too!
https://open.spotify.com/album/2pfLIyTcFrwPmQeXyy51sL?si=wcxnEsfxRnumJlowZhJDiA
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