Skeleton Jack
I’m not in a wordsy mood so let’s keep this honest and let’s keep this brief. There’s five tracks on this album. I like all five of them. The two most wordworthy are Crystal & Moonbeam. Crystal because the articulation is completely riveting, staggering like beatpoetry (but not in an awful way) and hitting syllables on and off beat, languid and free. Sometimes the rhyme falls where I expect it, sometimes it doesn’t, it doesn’t really matter, I plod through the track unthinkingly content with the lyrical movement of it all. I’m not really saying a lot of good things here, it’s been a long week and it’s Friday afternoon so the best has long passed through my system.
I’m pretty sure Moonbeams features an R.L. jones chorus on and it makes sense as the lead single because it’s easily the most listenable track. I mean I *thought* it was Rohin doing the chorus but there’s no mention of it in the notes so maybe I’m cloth eared. The track soars into synth driven euphoria around the minute thirty mark when the chorus drops back in and voila, you’ve got yourself a bonafide winner. I’m seriously enamored with that chorus. It has to be Rohin, it sounds so much like this one back here. **UPDATE** IT IS NOT, I REPEAT IT IS NOT ROHIN. It does however, remain wonderful, so there’s that.
The five track package is reasonably interesting and equally diverse as it should be, the product of three years recording. There’s even a beat heavy track with an MC called Lyndon De La Cruz on it who articulates like one of the dudes from Foreign Beggars. Spin it through, listen closely, pay good attention and appreciate.
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