I love discovering new artists, especially ones as hardcore as these two! A duo who, as I’ve found out, have been making waves in the underground movement and now being paired with one of the best producers out, period. This album is sure to be nothing less than a sonic explosion! Let’s talk about it!
This is the brand-new collaborative album between MC’s Him-Lo and Clev1, and together they make ‘Da Buze Bruvaz’, and they are accompanied by one of the illest beat makers around in Giallo Point. Together, they drop a nine-track, 27-minute project that is sure to hit fake tough guys in their feels and make them realise they ain’t really tough guys.
We gotta start with the production, because this shit goes HARD! Giallo has established the most bone, gritty, muddy, and overwhelming atmosphere possible for the real ones to sink into!
I’m talking about tracks that are mainly skeletal and minimal in structure yet explosive in outcome! For example, we have the track ‘Police Plaza’, which has that heavy thumping drums, delicate piano keys, and a consistent what sounds like a violin playing one continuous note in the deep background!
But then halfway through the track, we have those cinematic horns that come together as an almost instrumental pre-chorus! Very thrilling and dramatic.
Or we have the track ‘Goalie Mask’, which is probably my favourite track. Not only because it has that mysterious, eerie intro interlude that sets up the song, but it’s because it samples (what I think is an early Herbie Hancock song) with that looping rattling sound!
You’ve also got those what sounds like a fiddle playing in and out. This is one of those beats that makes you feel a certain way, as if you’ve travelled into a different world entirely!
These are just two of nine tracks that are guaranteed to set your sonic taste buds on fire and make you experience a raw, rugged album in a way you’ve never done before! You could say Giallo was on POINT tonight!
Now, onto the newly discovered duo. I’ll be honest, after I finished listening, I honestly got the same vibe as the next ‘Conway The Machine and Benny’ or the new ‘Havoc and Prodigy’. These two are ruthless in the best possible way!
Across this album, the pair don’t just adapt to the sounds; they morph into them and make it their own.
It was incredible to hear such chemistry and unity between the two. The way the first gave it off to the second, and he ran with it flawlessly, there was never a moment of awkwardness or fumbling. Never a case of ‘one verse was obviously better than the other’. It was two equally powerful, consistent performances that pushed the music itself to higher heights as a result!
There were no features on this one, which is a flex in and of itself because they are telling the audience ‘we don’t need nobody to make this shit rock’, and they are right. They are more than capable of holding it down!
The only thing I found odd (at least on my end) was that mine was censored. Not that it ruined the music at all; it’s just strange considering they obviously cuss, so what’s the point? Especially if it’s street poetry, why add a censorship feature? Unless it was a mistake, but regardless, no big issue at all!
Make sure you give this album a chance, and I promise you won’t regret it! It’s powerful in all the right places!
https://open.spotify.com/album/47R7XVkaBNi0ZfvqkVzMGv?si=2rFOHytATselZGEbpvQ3Ig
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