I’ll be honest. This album came at the perfect time for me because, as someone who has reviewed well over 800 reviews this year, I feared I was going into a circle of the same-sounding music in the game (which isn’t a knock on the artists themselves), but I felt I was constantly covering gritty boom-bap or old-school homage albums.
So when I found this artist and pushed play, a smile came up on my face that was a sigh of relief that I was on the path to cover a sound I haven’t heard before! So on that note, let’s get into it!
This little box of adrenaline is done by MC Keion Jevon and produced by Khaleel Mandel, and together they drop a massive 17-track HOUR-LONG project that is bound to get a reaction from you, positive or negative. You won’t be able to sit there emotionless over this.
This record consists of features as follows:
-LG Sai
-Khaleel Mandel
-LUCIEE
-Phaea
And man, I ain’t even fronting. This thing feels the SHOCK TO THE SYSTEM the underground needs right now to cut the dullness and repetition we are hearing in so many of them.
This thing is unprecedented and unpredictable to say the fucking least. Even from the opening track, we have absolutely chaotic and bombastic energy that hits you in the face like a ton of bricks!
If I had to describe the initial energy I hear in the record, it would be a whirlwind combination of:
-Death Grips
-JPEGMAFIA (Black Ben Carson Era)
-David Bowie
-Clipping.
Which I don’t think I have to tell you, audience, that anyone inspiring to match those energies is a ridiculous effort! If you can picture all four in a room together making a record together, I can imagine it would sound like this.
For the more mainstream OnlyFans out there, imagine Kid Cudi on every drug imaginable, during a goth phase, after losing everything with nothing but equipment and rage at the world, with access to him! That’s what this sounds like to me!
You’ve got an hour of the most unhinged, violent, spastic, experimental, and aura-filled instrumentals you’ve ever heard in your life!
One of the main beauty of this production is its unpredictable nature and high energy to the point of madness. To the point of taking your headphones off for 2 seconds you’d come back to a brand new influence, pattern or sound you have never heard of! Think of any particular genre or influence and this record will
Have it!
-Ambient
-Electronic
-Pop
-RnB
-Classical
-Orchestral
-Punk
-Screamo and anything else you think of. This record is F for -Fuck you all, I’ll do all the sounds and he really does!
This felt less like an album and more like an overwhelming DMT Trip that you can’t escape for a whole hour! It’s madness at the highest virtue and you feel tied into the record until the experience naturally stops!
I have so much respect for this producer to being able to pull off such frantic performances in his beats to have it come across as a psychopath’s interpretation of a cinematic score!
Also last thing I gotta shoutout regarding the beats in the frequent use of the PS click sound used as transitions! As a PS loyalist that gave this record even more points!
Man, what could I even say about Keion to even do justice to his performances on this record? This is some Oscar level shit. He must of had a life altering experience in the booth recording this album!
Because this isn’t just your standard recording vocals! This is
-Screaming
-Shouting
-Ad Libs
-Singing
-Rapping
And everything else in between! He throws everything at the wall to see what sticks and he doesn’t give a fuck what doesn’t stick he just puts it back on the wall and goes with it!
He honestly sounds like a man possessed, a man fully engaged with the sounds and taken over by the spirit of the music as if his words aren’t even his own!
It’s like he’s Charles Xaviour’s son Legion or The Incredibles Jack Jack in terms of versatility and character development across this album! On every song you’ll get a new face and projection of the man and his charisma switches up depending on the production provided!
Considering each beat has like 10 different phases that means this MC is working overtime to present the most eccentric and colorful version of himself that can’t be compared!
Beyond impressed, I was shocked the whole record. I was flabbergasted, jaw dropped and my taken back by the level of artistry and creativity contained by his performances.
If you want reference before listening to this, go to your streaming playlist, put it on shuffle and just keep pushing skip endlessly and that’s what it sounds like on here. Every few seconds a different octave and tone nothing is ever the same and that is bloody impressive!
I can already tell (based on how deep I am in the underground music scene and it’s artists) that this project will probably be dismissed more then praised due to it’s insane nature but yeah that’s their loss not the other way around!
This thing is ridiculous in every way imaginable and I mean that in the best way possible, if you give this record a chance I guarantee you won’t hear anything like it!
https://open.spotify.com/album/5dWAHlvxtvSGVTy04xtrI8?si=8p-eF0CDTP66oB9eFRamRg
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