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Sep 8, 2023Owusu could have gone any number of ways on his sophomore set, but it's a testament to his artistic conviction that he chose to make something so risky and complex. Even better, he pulled it off.
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Aug 21, 2023Struggler continues to convey his strife with a remarkable singularity.
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Aug 18, 2023With Struggler Genesis Owusu has followed through on his potential, and hopefully won’t be getting the boot from listeners anytime soon.
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Aug 18, 2023There’s a lot to unpack across STRUGGLER. The demands it places on listeners to fully connect with the material are more than warranted.
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Aug 17, 2023It’s a fantastic example of how artists can still come to a project with tonnes of contextual flavour that they want to include and not have it overpower the entire dish.
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Aug 17, 2023There’s a little less edge than on debut ‘Smiling With No Teeth’, but a softer lens offers more variety, and Genesis Owusu sails the spectrum of human experience with ease to make something just as weighty as the literature that inspired it.
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Aug 17, 2023With Struggler, he's proven that he's a singular talent, overcoming the sophomore slump and putting the world on notice by taking everything that made Smiling with No Teeth so special and digging deeper, building a world that's uniquely his own.
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Aug 17, 2023Genesis Owusu crafted an out-of-body experience of a sophomore LP. In a fit of cascading synths and lively flows, STRUGGLER has the artist not only attempting to understand the world around him but reimagining his already innovative style
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Aug 17, 2023Much of ‘Struggler’ may be unsettled but it never feels restless.
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Aug 17, 2023While Smiling spreaded itself thin at times, Owusu sounds more settled on Struggler and contorts his voice less.
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Aug 17, 2023What Comes Will Come, a skronking synth-pop-rap song, finds Owusu-Ansah sinking himself into production that strikes an interesting midpoint between goth-rock and shimmering synth-funk, one of the rare moments on the album that feels musically akin to the disorienting genre mashup of Smiling With No Teeth. These passages offer welcome electricity on an album that too often plays it safe and plays it vague – capitalising on an algorithm-breaking debut with more of the same.