3 Sentence Review // Earl Sweatshirt - Some Rap Songs

November 30, 2018 - Tan Cressida/Columbia

Some Rap Songs, Earl Sweatshirt’s long-awaited album brings, pivots on, and promotes idiosyncrasy as an ideal form of liberation. With now-expected terseness and brevity, this newest release focuses on production that challenges time signatures and outlasts verse for a solid ten or more seconds on most tracks, thereby offering the listener a lengthened period of appreciation for what lies under Earl’s obfuscated but at times poignant lyrics. Hard to say whether lacking or avoiding concrete subject matter, Sweating Shirt Earl’s main rap maneuver is flow which he stretches and compresses over trip-hop and broken guitar riffs and classical church chorus to effect something teetering on political statement, and maybe going there for those who more fluently speak his language. A+ ⛰️

Some Rap Songs, an album by Earl Sweatshirt on Spotify