Buy Now
- Critic score
- Publication
- By date
-
Jan 16, 2020R.Y.C is at its most provocative and memorable when its larger-than-life characters and productions become unhinged and combustible with lust for life. Yet Mura Masa’s anxious contemplation of modern-living – the highs, the lows, the lies we tell ourselves to make it all better – hits just as hard.
-
Jan 21, 2020Without overstating the point, the innovation that’s happening in today’s rock music is not coming from traditional rock bands — it’s coming from innovative artists that are fusing it with other sounds, ranging from Soundcloud rappers to electronic-inspired outfits like Guerilla Toss to post-metal acts like Deafheaven. In that context, it’s perhaps no surprise that fresh rock sounds are coming from a nominee for 2018’s Best Dance Album Grammy.
-
MojoJan 16, 2020Full of warmth, humour and depth. [Feb 2020, p.86]
-
Jan 16, 2020Gone are the house influences that underpinned his 2016 debut, and in are scratchy demo-sounding guitars, crisp production and gorgeous flourishes of string arrangements. House still lives on in some of the beat arrangements, although it’s presented through more natural-sounding drums which, when stacked against the lo-fi instrumentals, births something fresh and inspired.
-
Jan 21, 2020The album sees Crossan as a distinctive producer once again, after the events of the past few years threatened to leave him faceless.
-
Jan 22, 2020Where R.Y.C. succeeds—and where Crossan reveals a real point of view—is in his ultimate rejection of these initial frameworks in favor of something more fluid, a hybrid space in which these sounds, stylings, and emotional responses work together.
User score distribution:
-
Positive: 13 out of 23
-
Mixed: 6 out of 23
-
Negative: 4 out of 23
-
Jan 18, 2020
-
Mar 1, 2020
-
Feb 17, 2020