STREAMING // (Album) En Love – “Love Will Drown The Nest”
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Tracking + Drum Editing By: Robert Patton
Mixed + Mastered By: Owen Traynor
Cover Painting By: Julia Soboleva
Track List: Poacher’s Discard, Bodies Carried Over Doves, Billow Of Cherubs, Harsh Moon, Rats Will Float Atop Their Kin, Hounds In High Stakes
Classic Day – Second Time Around
The Underground Kings or just simply UGK might have had only two lyricists working together, but the sound that exemplified from their vocals and backing production is like jumping into a time machine. Especially on their second studio record, Super Tight which is slowed and more focused on spending a screwed up time together over 11 tracks.
Opening with a funk rhythm ready to rival George Clinton, both Pimp C, and Bun B are bulletproof through their introductory track, “Return.” A hook that describes, “It’s the return of the trill ass niggas, but you can’t hear me. It’s the return of the trill ass niggas,” and a 70’s styled car chase instrumental, UGK is explosive on their intro.
Pimp C snaps as the first lyricist, describing, “From the trill villa with a steel trigga, land of the real killers. Pop pop motherfucker there you go. I’mma bust em on yo ass if you don’t ease up off me ho.” He continues on as the instrumentation picks up and begins to become a slithering ooze of smooth sound, “So you gon give me my money but you don’t hear me though. But I bet you hear me when I fill you with bullet holes.”
Almost addictive by the time that Bun B appears on the track, his verse is intimidating but reflects perfectly off Pimp C’s styling. He describes, “Niggas steady catching lead to the head, I never aim for the chest. Motherfuckas sporting bulletproof vests. So I guess when I start blasting, niggas start passin away. Dearly beloved, I had yo ass gathered today.” The predatory style from UGK is lightning to the ears and Super Tight is a vacuum-sealed pack for the audience to rip apart.
The production that continues from Pimp C as the main producer holds Leo Nocentelli on guitar, Chris Severin on bass, and David Tornkanowsky under the piano and organ. Together, the group is essentially able to survive off the instrumentals alone and the track “It’s Supposed To Bubble” is a prime instance of UGK’s beauty.
While the lyrics and narration coming from Pimp C and Bun B might be shocking or refer to PCP, the instrumentation here could survive without the charisma of the two lyricists. The star of the track is actually Tornkanowsky on the keys who at the track’s end, delivers prodigy level play as a dynamic screen overlay.
The guitar from Nocentelli and the bass work from Severin are in-tandem to segue from just simple funk overlays to boosting Tornkanowsky up on this platformed stage. But the production from Pimp C is also vital to highlight as it allows all the pieces to slide together in this glimmering jigsaw of spliced cigarettes and spilled champagne.
UGK seems to have taken quite some time to arrive into the hands, but when the pack finally touches down, they are glorious. With a southern style close to gangsta rap and funky instrumentals, the flair here is more than just hot suns and golden grills.
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STREAMING // (Album) Benny The Butcher – “Burden Of Proof”
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Featuring: Rick Ross, Freddie Gibbs, Big Sean, Lil Wayne, Dom Kennedy, Queen Naija, Conway The Machine, Westside Gunn
Track List: Burden Of Proof, Where Would I Go, Sly Green, One Way Flight, Famous, Timeless, New Streets, Over The Limit, Trade It All, Thank God I Made It, War Paint, Legend
Streaming // (Track) The Bug – “You”
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STREAMING // (Album) Teller Bank$ – “The Grotesque & Beautiful”
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Featuring: Aakeem Eshu, Sleep Sinatra
Produced By: Ed Glorious
Track List: Suicide Hotline 3, Exorcise 19, Apex, The Way Home, Paul Bearer, The Poet, Piggy Pop, Clumsy, Won’t Testify, Appeals Freestyle, Pride Of The Fallen, The Orphan, The Weight, The Cycle, Will & Testaments
STREAMING // (Album) Dirty Art Club – “FMTI”
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Mastered By: Madwreck
Track 6 Assist By: B. Ocean
Artwork By: Madebymotel
Track List: Default Dev, Tell It To Your God, FMTI, Videotape, Transcendental Levitation, Leant, Cartoon Wasteland, Floor Drug Vampire, Slime, Golden Graves
Misc. Day – E, A, D, And G
With hands outstretched and strings flex, Christopher Tignor not only is able to assemble a world of sound through one-man-band tactics of production. His atmosphere that is surrounded by both the comfort of familiarity and the uncertainty of the incoming future, Tignor is a master of his craft on Along A Vanishing Plane.
Best suited under the dim lights of city nights where trains can be seen in the distance and the weather is cold, but not yet frigid. The spiderlike tapping’s that Tignor can illustrate from his violin under heavy bass and droning synth work on Along A Vanishing Plane is bordering the blur between orchestral and futuristic. Two polar opposites that can find a relinquishing sense of hopelessness as cultures clash to become a new mesh of rope to grab. His opening of “We Keep This Flame” that draws the blinds on the 10-track record is as fascinating as it is uplifting.
The bright string patterns are never blinding, but are a wash of enlightenment disguised as prideful pushes. The introductory strings are met with subtle percussion and bass work to fulfill the backing while Tignor is the center stage. This goes until a triangle clicks and becomes this mystic wonder through “One Eye Blue, One Eye Black (Blue)” that is reminiscent of the opening but fulfills more sluggish intentions.
The two-part track that has a following of “One Eye Blue, One Eye Black (Black)” creates more sinister motives that are a concerto of creation.
Waves crash, but almost in slow motion as the saturation bleeds from the frame similar to oil running over a canvas. The oil then shifts to blood, eventually turning into a sludge where the latter half of “One Eye Blue, One Eye Black (Black)” is a dark-lit cavern that seeps and wallows.
Slithering to the listener’s ear, the tension rises and hair begins to stand as the tambourine and hi-hat clasp together in unison, stumbling closer and closer until the presence is nearly unbearable. Tignor is never frightening as it is unnerving, based upon wonder. Especially when he reaches onto “Shapeshifting” where the resonance is built over deconstructed ashes of large mechanical bass hits that form on top of these twinkling string sections.
The four minutes spent here with “Shapeshifting” are whimsical but well in-tuned with sporadic nature too. The random plucks on the strings are frequent enough, but do not have much of a pattern as they fade in and out of the atmosphere, Tignor creates. The harsh hammer-esque smacks that wallop are engaging, and push the method of shock forward.
But when the curtain call comes and Tignor is the last isolated means of creation on Along A Vanishing Plane, the plan comes to fruition. A marble molded figure for the class and ability to push forward. Tignor does precise viper strikes instead of wide range assaults, aiding to the conquest for speaker domination.
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SUNDAY SAMPLER // (Playlist) “10/25/2020”
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“A playlist of tracks that were featured on MattsMusicMine.com from the week of October 19th – October 25th. From Reviews to Streams, never miss a track with these playlists that are uploaded every single Sunday till I drop dead.”
Featuring: Cold Meat, Buscrates, Tony Ozier, The Garden, Trash Talk, Kenny Beats, Lou Reed, Com Truise, The Body, Chuck Strangers, Navy Blue, Open Mike Eagle, Pink Siifu, Fly Anakin, Sumac, Clipping., Michael Esposito, Clown Core, Akhlys, Westside Gunn, Conway The Machine, Benny The Butcher, Armani Caesar, Bbymutha, Zelooperz, Statik Selektah, Nas, Joey Bada$$, Gary Clark, Jr.
Track List: Piscies Crises, Cinematic Fashion, Evergreen, A Struggle, Something Wicked, White Light / White Heat, Rock ‘N’ Roll, False Ascendancy, A Lament, Surrender, Bucciarati, Richard Pryor, The Iron Chain, Pain Everyday, Flat Earth, Pnigalion, The Butcher And The Blade, 98 Sabres, Baby Mama, Keep It Moving
STREAMING // (Album) Bbymutha – “Muthaland”
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Featuring: Swerzie, Na-Kel, Yung Baby Tate, Zelooperz, Liv.e, Kindora
Track List: Intro (Skit 1), Roaches Don’t Die, Bbymutha This Bbymutha That, Spooky Mutha Mansion, Skit 2, Holographic, Heavy Metal, Either Way, Nice Guy, Baby Mama, Cocaine Catwalk, Skit 3, Dream Sequence, 11 11, Gimme Dat, Baltimore, Skit 4, Demonology, Spirit Of Suzie, Scam Likely, Bbymutha’s Body, Drowning Pool, Pink Poop Emoji, Not For Caucasians, Outro (Skit 5)
STREAMING // (Album) DJ Critical Hype – “ANDRE”
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Featuring: André 3000 + Tyler, The Creator
Track List: Babylon, Come Home, Chronomentrophobia, Rosa Parks, Play Guitar, Might “O”, Int’l Players Anthem (I Choose You), Green Light, Vibrate, The Real Her, Throw Some D’s, Dedication To My Ex / Roses, Player’s Ball, Life Is A Musical, I Do, Elevators (Me & You), What A Job, Da Art Of Storytellin’ (Pt. 1), Da Art Of Storytellin’ (Pt. 2), Da Art Of Storytellin’ (Pt. 3), Da Art Of Storytellin’ (Pt. 4), Happy Valentine’s Day, Rollinem 7’s. Take Off Your Cool, So Fresh So Clean, Deuces (Remix), Sorry, Walk It Out, Prototype, Return Of The “G”, Solo (Reprise), Hollywood Divorce, She’s Alive, Aquemini, Behold A Lady
New Music – I Just Wanted To Shine
“God mimics the sun,” describes AA Rashid on WHO MADE THE SUNSHINE, the opening to the continuously sprawling catalog from Westside Gunn. Coming off a technical studio debut from Gunn on Shady Records, it moves the portrayal of Buffalo city kids onto the main stage with both the ugliness of violence and the beauty of warped loops and broad shoulders.
“Sunshine Intro” is a charismatic pull back with the velvet curtain that Gunn can sit back behind like a controller of a grand wonderland like Oz. With mystery and torture on the way instead of gifts of confidence and brains, the following track “The Butcher And The Blade” features Benny The Butcher and Conway The Machine for a Griselda tornado triple threat.
Melting over a rampaging piano instrumental that twirls and twinkles against the grain of a punchy snare and bass combination, Gunn is hellish but charismatic. He describes, “Ayo, Pyer Moss over the Mossberg, for dark we shoot em all first. Hand in hand crack commerce, check out my arm work, my wrist work, Arm & Hammer the mixture.” With the focus that then switches to more automatic loves, he begins to say, “Ayo, peace seven, I had a fetish for the MAC-11s. Since an adolescent, learning lessons, got my shot perfected.”
The perfected shots in question come later with lyrical rips disguised as .380 ACP rounds from Conway and Benny where they work together as a lynching grip on the audience. Conway describes, “Look, how can I not win? At least three of the albums that I dropped in your top ten. Your wrist ‘tick-tick’ boy, the hand on my watch spin… I stacked two hundred during quarantine, I did not spend. I do not got friends, V12 on the side of that drop Benz.” Benny follows right behind with mob ties and direction to a breaking of bread.
He illustrates, “Put my team in position, now I’m surrounded by bosses. Niggas getting clipped, homicide questioning my involvement. Cashing out at the jeweler, y’all buying shit in installments. Patience, know it or not, now glaciers froze in the watch.” The emotion then changes to show diversity with the track “All Praises” that uses the vintage Alchemist tag beginning with “A-A-A-A-A-Alchemist.”
Gunn is more subdued here and almost in a worshipping non-secular way. He describes, “All praises, to the most high. Haven’t been asleep I heard shots all through the night. Be grateful, wrong, or right. Just hung up a collect call, they tryna give my nigga life.” As he continues over the smooth subtle creep, Gunn does not even deliver a verse but instead lets Jadakiss and Boldy James orchestrate under smoke-filled rooms.
So when you ask, “How ya been FLYGOD?,” Gunn could easily reply, “I been livin’,” and the way that he continues to consistently wet speakers through isolated gun assaults is immaculate. Blending the lines between art and emotional dissonance, the scorpion stings and burns the Griselda emblem into the prey.
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