If there may be one rapper that refuses to be boxed in, it’s most likely André 3000. An Atlanta hip hop legend who continues to be round and kicking, casually successful the perfect rap titles this present day, has determined to do one thing very totally different this time.
It was not way back that André 3000 dropped an album as a flautist. Now, he has taken issues a notch increased together with his newest EP, 7 Piano Sketches, the place all seven tracks are piano instrumentals.
Every observe begins with a voice asserting the observe identify and quantity — which is the one time you actually get to listen to André 3000’s voice on the report. As soon as the announcement is made, he jumps straight into the piano items that represents totally different states of thoughts.
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Some are completely absurd, just like the observe titled ‘Whenever you’re a ant and also you get up in an superior temper, about to drive your son to high school, solely to find that you just left the lights on within the automotive final night time so your battery is drained’ — which by the best way, is certainly the entire title. Some are extra sensual, just like the music named ‘I spend all day ready for the night time.’ The nomenclature follows his latest inclination for complete sentences as observe names, which was the identical factor he did on his final album, New Blue Solar.
One factor appears clear although, André lately has been making music as somebody having enjoyable with totally different crafts, versus pleasing the gang. The result’s eccentric expressions of artwork equivalent to this EP. To advertise the album, André additionally confirmed as much as the MET Gala with a piano attachment on his again, which resembles his sketch on the duvet artwork for the EP. Try the EP beneath!
