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- Summary: The latest full-length solo release from Los Angeles-based vaporware artist George Clanton features guest appearances by Hatchie and Neggy Gemmy.
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- Record Label: 100% Electronica
- Genre(s): Electronic, Pop/Rock
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Aug 8, 2023The instrumentals of Ooh Rap I Ya are a feat of surrealism in songcraft, ebbing waves of synths and overblown drums soundtrack much of the run time, but in increasingly more abstract ways. It isn’t long until the mastery of the pop form displayed in the first half of the record devolves into the spare parts of a song: 90s hits deconstructed and remade in the most obtuse yet enjoyable ways.
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Aug 8, 2023Brazen and charming, it’s the album of this summer.
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Aug 8, 2023Not that his previous POP songs weren't POP, but never before has he sounded so confidently chart-ready in a chorus of his. Likewise, "Justify Your Life" features trip-hop beats, slabs of chillwave layers, and a reverb-full soundscape in an uncompromisingly banging way.
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Aug 8, 2023Ooh Rap I Ya plays it entirely too safe, feeling less like a biting subversion of nostalgia than a straight-up “remember when.” This could have been saved by meatier hooks, a more realized emotional arc, or production choices that didn’t feel as if they were well and fully covered by Neon Indian and Washed Out over a decade ago.
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Aug 28, 2023
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