If Shel Silverstein's classic book of poems, "Where The Sidewalk Ends," reads as a shielding metaphor for children's innocence and imagination, then the auditory book of parables entitled "End of the Earth" by musical artist, Mavi, plays as the report of our unpitying existence and the means in which he inches towards meaning and life.
The segmented flows and looped beats at times feel like unmanageable madness of Mavi's own making while other beats, like the production on "Life We Live," is what I imagined the sounds of space expanding before your eyes as you keep a weather eye on the stars to be. Tones of peace overtake Mavi's raps while his flow interacts with the music like he's scribbling racing thoughts down on paper. Those paralyzing chords, melodies, and ritualistic drums shift all focus on the "Let The Sun Talk" artist's darkly abstract lyrics. And as the penultimate track for "End of the Earth," it makes the landing on the pleading "Town Crier" feel like we've stepped into a time loop linked all the way back to the incredible, free-spoken intro "Time Travel.
The end of "End of the Earth" sounds like the beginning and the beginning sounds like the end. Which to me spots the true reveal of the timeline for existence.
Listen to "End of the Earth" below.
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