2: Too Cozy is inferior to the one that came before, but is still a serviceable sampler from the Mob. Though he appears on all three records listed here (and is more or less the top-billed artist on one), A$AP Rocky smartly cedes most of the spotlight for his crew’s trio of summer releases. This is a smart record that doesn’t stake itself on smartness alone, instead sinking incisor-first into the form.Ī$AP Ferg: Still Striving A$AP Twelvyy: 12 A$AP Mob: Cozy Tapes Vol. The guests (especially the Freestyle Fellowship legend Self Jupiter on “ornette’s swan song” and Elucid on the superb “landscaping”) are welcome costars, and the writing process-milo toured these songs before he committed them to wax or. Its singles are obvious achievements: “magician (suture)” is breathless and “sorcerer” frays into a sort of resolve. who told you to think?!!?!!?!?!?!, milo’s new record, is his most musically experimental, a craftsmanlike work in an age of sales quotas. so the flies don’t come, his exceptional LP from the fall of 2015, was practically all sinew compared to suburb, a heel turn that burned bridges and booklists.
It was entirely self-produced, and it would hint at the direction milo’s solo music would take over the next few years. That tape had song titles like “Two Men Repeatedly Suggest Something Is On The Low” and “‘Maybe I Like Owls,’ Said Sun Ra” Busdriver opens another, somber track by saying “Black power obstructionist, take down this phone number.” It started with a cassette-only, EP-length recording, called (Boyle) and Piles and released under the name RED WALL. milo’s a toothpaste suburb had come out in the fall together in that Echo Park alley, milo and s.al shrugged off suburb’s sound-a warm haze of adolescent code-building-and got to work on something smaller. The pair lived elsewhere in the city, further East, but rented a detached garage/storage space in an Echo Park alley and converted it into a studio. It would end up being a short stay, maybe predicted by the clock in the Toyota that stayed on Wisconsin time. Milo: who told you to think?!!?!!?!?!?!Ī couple of years ago, milo and s.al moved to Los Angeles.