Sure enough, the music is excellent throughout, glistening with a futurist funk aesthetic and dexterity of musicianship that are both informed by the classics and deliciously a la mode. Armed with this information alone, one should be able to glean a fairly solid understanding of both the quality and tone to expect here. The outfit is formed of West Hill Studio alumni Enrico Fierro and Raffaele ‘Whodamanny’ Arcella.

This is perfect wind-down music for the seasoned lo-fi listener, who hopes for something more than whatever it is that that anime girl from the YouTube video bumps.ĭanger Boys ‘Monsters From The Future’ (Pinchy & Friends)įunk-flecked Neapolitan outfit Danger Boys land on Pinchy & Friends with a follow-up to last year’s ‘Danger Zone’, presenting four glistening cuts on the ‘Monsters From The Future’ EP. ‘Hyacinth’ and ‘Something Easy’ barely scratch the surface of drums, sounding like half-sleepwalks through what Pokemon game soundtracks would sound like if they weren’t 8-bit. Fittingly, Mommy features on two tracks – it’s not actually the artist’s mum, but a fellow lo-fi hip hop artist hailing from anonymised internet hyperspace. The result is a mega-distinct sonic scene – music for just-right pie cooling down on the windowsill, as the sun sets over the pasture beyond. Just as we thought it couldn’t get any homelier, ‘Feeling Empty Inside Because There’s No More Spaghetti’ is a timeless cottagecore anthem, combining drowsy, cuckoo-clock guitar clicks, kazoo and whistles. And as is the case with any lowercase album, the extra headroom makes way for more crispness and adventurous audio workouts ‘Happy When You’re Not Here’ has guitar plucks in spatial audio – as if elves are perched on our shoulders, egging us on into the day. All is apparently tiny and sweet, as if the album is regailing a love story between dolls in a genderqueer toy town. ‘Gay Story’ is a snappy and lowercase soundpack as they should, every tender piano progression and guitar cadence judders through the medium of hiss and meticulously recorded background noise. In other words: it takes more than a few wonky beats and textural sounds to sate our cravings nowadays – we believe ILWG has what it takes to buck the trend. Therefore, for them make lo-fi beats continually interesting has to be a tall-ish order. ILWG is one of the more eminent artists to come to prominence in the genre since Tomppabeats or b.dsu dropped their landmark albums in the mid-2010s. It’s rare for a lo-fi hip hop album to get a vinyl release, let alone fly off our shelves, so we were pleasantly intrigued to indulge the work of Paris producer In Love With A Ghost this week.

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