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Appreciate when the artists you listen to exhaust all their effort on a song like they just played in a double overtime win. Or, better yet, like they just pulled off an upset in the World Martial Arts Tournament a la a blinding technique. That is exactly how recording artist and songwriter, Gregnwmn, and his Carter Ace-featured record "Solar Flare" performs.
My favorite saying from the great, the marvelous Erykah Badu came on "Bump It" when she simply put the production as: "Fat drums. Fat bass." And I want to say something similarly beefy is happening in the Epik the Dawn, Edwin Gonzalez production. Domineering snare and pearled hi-hats in a never-changing rhythm carries a tone of relentlessness. Background harmonies strike the ear closer to chords in a progression towards the sky. The general gruff in Gregnwmn's tone throughout his verse makes the heart of the record feel like it struggled to make it out the mud in order to beat again. The naturalistic artist's verse is in stark contrast with his winning chorus that wears its potential in its melody, potential that Carter Ace's double-time, tone switching verse speaks to directly with ultra aggression in a way we've never heard the "I Think I'm Normal" artist rap with before.
Ironically, "Solar Flare" is Gregnwmn and Carter Ace both saying they aren't a flash in the pan. Their hard work and musical talent are the seeds that will let them see their dreams and goals sprout from the ground. Gregnwmn laced the record with nature metaphors without really planting the metaphors. Is this now what we would call sprouting a green thumb in music?
Listen to "Solar Flare" below.
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