Review: Wonderfully lackadaisical is the latest LP by Apollo Brown and Crimeapple, whose conscious hip-hop stylings and threadbare productions peg a distinct era in sound, all while rendering said sound entirely their own. The New Jersey natives distil poetry and philosophy between lines, summoning utter bars of poetic justice; Brown's dusty productions mar Crimeapple's verses in cloggy, soft-clipped haziness, as in-out gospel samples and jazzy ride cymbals draw on a chromic influential palette. "Lawdahmercy" goes the refrain on 'Mercy', as 'Apple antiphonates: "you'd better pray, 'cos I don't...". Elsewhere, 'The Problem' and 'Wonderful Feelin' (with Willie The Kid) flaunt the best of NJ's softest-footed hip-hop productions, where hard beats are further foregone in favour of experimental soundscapes.
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