Pronounced ‘Air’, the duo of Brooklyn rapper Maassai and New Jersey producer JWords serve up a stylish mix of bleeps, beats, industrial sounds, with clubby to woozy, inventive, minimal, alternative electronica marked by free-flowing hip-hop/spoken word. At first it feels superficial and slight, but subsequent listenings enrichen enjoyment of their craft, from the more abstract Glitch in Time or Backwards, the super-slick Down Down Bb (with Quelle Chris), the soulfully sung Right Here, to the sci-fi jangly and otherworldly Static or dark, or the house-y beats of Air It Out, there’s range of moods, punchy defiance and tenderness, changing paces and subtle, clever musical innovation here to make this a fascinatingly original release. Out on Big Dada.
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