‘Soul Food’ (samples ‘Champ’ by The Mohawks) As with the the Tribe Called Quest companion on which she’s based, Dalia makes sporadic appearances throughout the album bridging gaps from one track to the next.Ģ. The intro closes with an introduction to ‘Dalia’, our guide for the album, closely modeled on A Tribe Called Quest‘s iconic ‘ Midnight Marauder Tour Guide‘, and whilst it may be a risky move to try to place your own work in the same bracket as a revered classic, it’s another indicator that this album will be more of a journey than a clumsy stop / start affair. Lyrically it’s confident: “maybe if I go platinum they’ll remember me…” and we’re treated to a couple of minutes of lyrical reminders that Logic’s a winner over swelling piano and synth before the track bubbles to a crescendo of drums and cheering crowds. It’s an interesting choice given the track’s recent association with Kanye’s ‘Bound 2′, the influence of early Kanye albums evident here generally. Logic’s ‘Intro’ gets it just right, with a behind-the-scenes feel giving way to lush piano phrases subtly interpolating Wee’s ‘Aeroplane (Reprise)’. If you want to your album to sound like an album rather than a collection of unrelated tracks then a solid intro and outro are the book ends that might just seal your record’s fate. ‘Intro’ (replays ‘Aeroplane (Reprise)’ by Wee and ‘Midnight Marauder Tour Guide’ by A Tribe Called Quest) Read on for our track by track break down of the album’s sample material:ġ. When the Eazy E sampling single of the same name dropped weeks back, it shot straight to the top of our Hot Samples chart and confirmed that the forthcoming album would be nothing if not eagerly anticipated. Logic‘s new long player ‘Under Pressure’ certainly attempts to place itself in that lane and for the most part does so with some style. But that’s not to say there aren’t still major artists giving it their best shot and many succeeding (see Kendrick, Kanye, Drake, perhaps even J. In an age where statistics, we are told, suggest that ‘the album is over’ and ‘hot singles’ (and albums which are little more than collections thereof) are where the safe money is at, the desire to produce coherent long players must be hard for many artists to muster.
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