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Wolf’s ARC Pick: Whack World by Tierra Whack
Wolf’s Album Review Club (ARC) pick:
https://media.pitchfork.com/photos/5...World%20EP.jpg Whack World Studio album by Tierra Whack Listen to this record and write a review of it in this thread. To pick a record to be reviewed please do it in the following thread: https://www.musicbanter.com/general-...view-club.html Thank you |
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seriously guys it's only 15mins long just give it a shot
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I know little about hiphop but I'll give my uninformed opinion. The different songs/pieces were so short that it felt a little fractured to me, but it might be a good thing for me; in the Pitchfork thread I discovered that I often find hiphop songs to get duller halfway through. The lyrics (as far as I can make them out) make me grin sometimes, and I like the music behind the rapping. It's very melodious for a hiphop album I guess, and it has cool rhythms. I like her voice and the range it has (in terms of how her voice sounds).
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At first I thought it was one of those album previews I often see on YT. So I checked it discogs.com and it's not a preview. It turns out every song is approximately (if not exactly) one minute long. The details of the video describes it as "A Visual And Auditory Project." Visually the way the video is artsy and weird reminds me of stuff Marina and Diamonds, and St. Vincent would do. She switches up from rapping, and singing (slow jams) R&B style, and the examples in the video shows she is apt at both.
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Knowing that this is more of an experiment / project I'm forced into a different perspective.
My first impression is that it sounds like a collection of demos. I get that they're essentially finished pieces and fit into a whole but at the same time a lot of these sound like summaries rather than whole ideas. It's like perpetual first paragraphs without a follow-up, rather than shifting into the next gear it jumps to the next track. All first verse, no chorus. Maybe I'm too old and I just don't get the reflection of modern youth. It happened to me, it'll happen to you too. Someday. Big picture though it reminds me of Imani Coppola's first release back in the late 90s (Chupacabra) - another project album. Not so much stylistically but in the approach of incorporating a wider variety of styles and the occasional absurd vocals. Especially as this album progresses and TW starts getting weirder / twangier. It's certainly not bad, but now that it's done I'm left to wonder what I just listened to. Maybe I should have watched along instead of just writing. |
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