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Outside, relationships are rekindling, but the fallout from quarantine looms heavy as clouds cover.
Are you noticing ways that youve changed as well?
Are you more anxious?
What psychic damage did we accrue in the year well never forget?
Are we better now?
Its true; the best thing you’re able to be in a pinch is cucumber-cool and witty.
Staples does so effortlessly, such that hes known as much for his humor as his music.
His career has been a volley of sharp left turns.
Get too cozy with the sound of any release, and the next one will throw you off.
Vince is engaged in a precarious gambit.
Hes making very personal and not all that radio-friendly music on a major record label.
Smoothing these dramatic stylistic turns were effortless flows and unnervingly efficient wordplay.
Are You With That?
frets about bloodshed in neat flows.
Every song is a two-minute wonder thats gone after the second chorus.
WhereFM!went for sprawl, the self-titled is laser-guided and direct.
Its tempting to see the new album as an answer to the last.
The people with the least opportunities continue to struggle and to chisel out ways where ways hadnt existed.
But stakes are higher.
A pandemic is good for heightening and exacerbating preexisting social ills.
The devilish joy harbored in the feistier moments ofFM!Who bout thatliiife?
The pared-down stuff has gone over a bitweirdlywith listeners by hook or by crook, new Vince music confoundssomeone.
This resembles the kind of music some people wanted Vince to make all along.
We always want whatever we havent got.
It sounds the way this summer feels.
