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genre: jazz
release date: 30/06/23
runtime: 3:59
video: no :(

right, don’t mean to brag here, however, i can say with a fair degree of certainty, that 2024 is off to a resoundingly successful start here on a single song review. because we’ve not only been landing some really great songs on your lap, but. we’ve done it again. that’s right baby, another banger alert! someone fire the horn and please dowse the fires, gondor does not call for aid. it’s got all it needs right here in the form of jazzy hip hop tour de force, cooks but we’re chefs. listen to their song secred chord, it’s the one that pleased the lord, and get your butt back here so that we can dive in with both feet let’s go.

click the picture up above to give it a listen!

what i liked! :)

there’s a particular feeling that is so hard to encapsulate in words, and even harder to describe even with the vaguest of terms, but to my mind it’s the feeling of being in a car when the driver suddenly puts their foot down and the car just jumps. it’s like you’ve just been scooped up by a force much bigger than yourself and propelled forward whether you really wanted to or not. it’s a feeling of being powerless and lost in a way that doesn’t imbue terror, just the sensation of movement and songs like this are some of the few things that can induce that feeling without actually moving you physically. take a lil listen to this song at 2:07, right in the middle of the track. by this point, we’ve spent some time building up and laying out all of the different main ideas. we’ve gotten to know the swirly electric piano, the groovy rhythmn section, at least 2 vocalists who are crushing all that they see and now, now it’s time to go. and it does, oh my days does it go.

that was my absolute favourite part of what is an incredibly dense and grankly stunning track. i want to take a second now and talk about a few other bits i really loved. the really gentle blend of what on first glance feels like hip hop and electronic activity like break beats or synths intertwined on gorgeously produced and immaculate acoustic and analog intruments. i’m also obsessed with the degree to which the interplay between the vocal work and instrumentation are so well done. it’s the little things that land it, like the verse where the tempo steps up considerabley is interplayed with so easily by the electric piano. the little vocal frills being reflected by a sax fill. it’s all so playful and joyous and easily layed up like these guys knew exactly what they were doing. and they obviously did.

what i didn’t like :(

sorry i’ve really got nothing, other than i would’ve loced for the energy of the mid section of the song to return, it’s a track that really builds itself up to that moment and then let’s itself down again, which is grand it works so well, but i loved that moment so much and i’d have liked it if they had it back for another twirl.

my drunk opinion :S

all my life all i’ve ever wanted was to have the experience of living like i’m in a music video, and with this song, i am halfway there. now i just need to nail the rest of the bits, like being extremely cool and having a lot of people who rotate around me like some kind of main character.

for fans of

hehehe i lured you in with my trap, and now i will activate my trap card! i had another sick jazz act in my back pocket all alonggggggg! they’re also really sick, using lots of interesting elements and energy and doing lots of sick nasty stuff. meet corto alto, who rule and you should listen to them also.

should you listen to more?

cooks but we’re chefs ruleeeeeeeeeeeeeee. they’re so small too which is, to my mind, a crime and i’m charging all of you with the task of getting to listening to them. their music is absolutely brilliant, it all goes with the energy and sense of fun that this has, and brilliant musicianship backs it all up. listen to their music, you have to, it’s so important that you do.

or better yet, reply to this email! what did you think of this song? have you been listening to anything good lately? any gems i’ve missed?

more i’ve been listening to

habe / original

this lil indie song builds and builds and puts a real spring in your step.

allie kelly / gunshy

this chorus is fuzzy and rockin and makes me want to sing along even though i don’t know the words. love that for me!

fightmaster / bad man

ohhhh this song is extremely cool. it’s got that kind of storytelling rocky vibe to it where each lyric is backed up by the whole band, but it starts out cool and then it puts on some sunglasses inside and lights a cigarette.

or just reply to this email! what did you think? what would you change? how are you?

that’s all from us in this edition! next edition drops 6.30 uk time next tuesday, peace!