"After a stint on Gunn's Griselda Records-a nice look that reduced him to a supporting act-Nack continued tacking left with instinctive performances over deconstructed arrangements, often working in miniature. He maximizes his limited screentime on THE LIFE OF ERG, flexing a wizened, expressive flamboyance, transcending the fully-loaded bars of his Tragic Allies days. "14hrflights" finds him in conversation with himself, peppering open space with interstitial ad libs (his preferred ad lib, quixotically, is "ad lib")."
"BoneWeso spent the 2000s working in dancehall and reggaeton spaces, but you'd never know it based on THE LIFE OF ERG. His single-tracked loops are more evocative than Daringer and Nicholas Craven's, less frenetic than Conductor Williams and Don Carrera's. Erg takes cues from the instrumentals, indulging nostalgia over a dreamy sax on "Wareztheluv," conjuring Parisian flights and top-shelf liquor on "Silenceofthelambs.""
Nack shifts left from mainstream affiliations into instinctive, miniature performances over deconstructed arrangements, maximizing limited screentime with wizened, expressive flamboyance and incremental lyrical techniques that compound ideas across sequenced bars. BoneWeso applies single-tracked loops and restrained production, favoring evocative textures and nostalgic flourishes like dreamy saxophone touches. Erg mirrors instrumental cues while foregrounding aspirational lifestyle motifs, sampling, and newsreel imagery. The trio collectively diverges from neoclassical hip-hop conventions through local idiosyncrasies, colliding dialects, and equatorial intrigue, producing a subtle immersion that suggests alternate diasporic histories and regional specificity within a reworked format.
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