There is a certain level of truth to the idea that you should get better with every release you have as a musician or else what’s the point of going forward? I’m not sure that there is a specific name for this, but it was Bukowski who said that whenever people would ask him what his favorite book was he’d say his newest because otherwise he wouldn’t have written it.
What
KUTMAH does between the first “Black Waves Tapes” and this volume is nothing
short of magic. I listened to the first
one, wrote the review and posted it all before I even listened to the second
one because I didn’t want to get into my head about which one was better or how
they differ—I really just didn’t want to askew my own opinion on some level.
So what
makes this better? (Not that Vol. 1 was
so bad) These beats have a bit more
synth to them, but they maintain the underlying qualities of hip hop found the
first time around. The songs also manage to draw out something
between a video game sampler and a wrestling theme song, which I find to just
be fantastic.
But
then the synth starts singing. Oh, there
are some actual words in these here tunes, such as “When I was young, I felt
there was something wrong”, but the synth itself seems to add a nice bit to
this tape that puts this a step above Vol. 1.
Since this has 8bit tendencies it may sound cheesy, but I really do feel
like with Vol. 2 KUTMAH has truly leveled up. #eatthemushroomspitfire
I don’t
really enjoy making genre names for people because I either think that it’s
already been done and I’m using the term wrong or because I just don’t feel
like the meaning will come across accurately—and really I just don’t like labeling
music in general, but if I had to give this a name I’d put it between hip hop
and synth pop, so I’d call it synth hop.
Now, watch, that’s probably already a genre that involves bunnies or
something.
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