Savour The Rations
Ah yes, it’s Bloghound Billy at it again after a cool quarter year hiatus, a period during which I was hounded mercilessly by fans, artists, creditors and publicists alike. “When will you write about my new single, dumbass?” and “you understand it’s a loan right? You can’t just keep the money?” are just a few of the questions that I’ve failed to answer over the past quarter.
I’m gonna answer this one though. You’ve not asked it yet but I’m gonna answer it, stand back now. YES. Yes, this song is one of the best Australian tracks of the year. YES, it’s one of the best produced hip-hop tracks of the year, local or international. YES, it’s indicative of a luminous future for Australian hip-hop. Its called THANK THE LORD by uprising Sydney crew Savour The Rations.
Can we pause on the production though for a second… The hand drums, the maniacal plucked sounds pattering like rain and those classic-Kwame manipulated bass sounds that allow the beat end to carry the same energy as the vocal parts – some feat, truly. Maybe I should have led with this but indeed it’s produced by Kwame under his production handle ‘thayboykwame’. He’s also one of the four MCs who lay bars over his production and I’m gonna have to put my hand up and say that I was expecting his flowcomotive punch to leave the other three in the dust. I was dead wrong and that’s what makes this crew feel so lucrative – there’re different voices to this and each bring fire and thunder of their own. That’s the strength of a crew like Brockhampton who can exhibit so many personalities in the one track and I think that’s what gives gas to THANK THE LORD too.
Imagine this thing live though… just dwell on it while you’re listening and thank the lord you get to. No word on whether or not these four will continue releasing under the mantle of STR in months to come (Kwame, Domba, Raj Mahal and Gibrillah all have blossoming solo projects in 2018) but on the strength of THANK THE LORD, you’d have to think they’ll go in on some more posse cuts. Please.
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Really professional & original, and that’s some tight production. Definitely worth keeping an eye on.