Style: Instrumental hip hop
Primary Emotions/Themes: The kind of music I want to wind down with after a hard weeks work, nursing a glass of whisky on the rocks while decompressing from life
Thoughts: DDob is an artist I know next to nothing about. I know that they released Date of Birth and I know that it's an excellent hip hop album... but that's it. And that's all I need.
Date of Birth is a collection of piano driven hip hop songs. Most of the songs follow a simple formula: the piano takes the lead, accompanying instruments back it up, and the beats bring it all together. Sometimes the piano is replaced with a guitar, but really that's the essence of the entire album.
The resulting album is an ultra chill collection of songs that is perfect for a quiet morning, a peaceful evening, or any time when the world is getting to be too much. There is a peace about these songs that keeps me coming back to this album moreso than almost any of the other instrumental hip hop albums in my collection.
The way the songs groove and sway, it's second to none. The way that the atmosphere slowly builds in the songs is hypnotic. The way that the instruments play with each other is majestic. These fourteen songs are quite simply the peak of the genre, nothing more to be said.
Written July 22nd 2024
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