Archive for September, 2020
Is this the most self-assured debut you’ve ever heard? Don’t lie to me now, is it? Pookie just shot out the blocks with explosive force, gunshot residue left behind her in the same rubble wreckage as scores of career MCs. Pookie leveled them in one, ‘Tuesday’ the weapon of choice, a record that’s one part laid back with an aperitif, other part hit list of names. Yeah there’s some of that bass manipulation and the beat is ~on point~ with those gliding 808s adding angles to what could have been a smooth record otherwise. But her flow, oh damn, her flow… seismic, explosive, confident, brilliant. She ducks and weaves through the record, not just in terms of rhythm and cadence but voice too. It’s that extra capacity for vocal melody that adds colour to the every verse and it’s what we’ve just seen Tkay do so accutely on Last Year Was Weird Vol. 2.
Real name Aćol Agaar Apollo, shes a proper MC, a south Sudanese Australian based in Melbourne with one foot down the throat of the emerging emerged hip-hop movement and the other planted with pride in Footscray. She’s teamed up with Baasto for the hooks on Tuesday, a track written in the dead-heart of Melbourne isolation, likely an influence on a record that’s centered around keeping a small circle and ‘riding solo’. Tuesday has the same consistency as liquid nitrogen- icey as hell yet somehow still likely to see you burnt, with yr guy suffering supreme frostbite as I dribble this text onto the blog. Big things guaranteed for Pookie or your Sound Doc patreon money back.
Artists you need to know rn
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| 2. Voidhood | |
259 | 3. jamesjamesjames | |
186 | 4. Zan | |
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| 5. Sesame Girl | |
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