Oddisee - The Good Fight [Ultra Clear Vinyl]

MELLO MUSIC GROUP

£33.10

Cat. no: LPMMG00068C
Format: LP Ultra Clear Vinyl
Barcode: 843563152317
Release Date: Nov 2023
Genre: Rap/Hip-Hop

Oddisee's breakthrough album: Imbued with love, honesty, and selfessness, The Good Fight is virtuosic in its musicality, direct in its language, and infnitely relatable

In a landscape overrun with abstract indulgence and shallow trend-chasers, the Prince George's County, Maryland artist has created a record that reminds you that it's music before it's hip-hop.

For Oddisee, "The Good Fight" is about living fully as a musician without succumbing to the traps of hedonism, avarice, and materialism. It's music that yields an intangible feeling: the sacral sound of an organ whine, brass horns, or a cymbal crash. It's a meditation on our capacity to love and the bonds binding us together. It's our ambition and greed warring with our sense of propriety - a list of paradoxes we all face when living and striving.

Oddisee's production simmers in its own orchestral gumbo. You sense he's really a jazzman in different form, inhabiting the spirit of Roy Ayers and other past greats. The Fader's compared him to a musical MC Escher, calling hailing his "grandiose and symphonic sound" and "relevant relatable messages." Pitchfork praised his "eclectic soulful boom-bap."

LP Ultra Clear Vinyl Tracks: That's Love / Want Something Done / Contradiction's Maze (feat. Maimouna Youseff) / Counter-Clockwise / First Choice / Belong To The World / A List of Withouts / Book Covers (feat. Nick Hakim) / Meant It When I Said It / Fight Delays / What They'll Say (feat. Gary Clarke Jr, Maimouna Youseff) / Worse Before Better (feat. Tranqill)