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Amine limbo review12/16/2023 If you sense an unmistakable whiff of canny, pop-cognisant manoeuvring wafting about, that’s because there is. It’s nothing he’s not done before.īut who needs to evolve when you have confidence and charisma like this? “It’s my year,” he exclaims on Shimmy – and, oddly, you almost believe him. And he continues to sing nifty, hooky toplines and melodies that sink into your brain without your consent. Can’t Decide cranks out the very marginally flamenco-tinged, all-purpose Spanish acoustic guitar phrasing that nearly every big pop and rap tune seems to have poached to corner the Latin market. Virtually every 808 beat has been processed to approximate a rough, distorted crunch – the snares and handclaps crisp as if they’ve been fried in shallow oil, the bass notes low and grimy and pneumatic and all the rest. For the most part, you get exactly what you expect. You are thus prepared for recycled material, no new developments, scant in the way of progression. Woodlawn, its second track, could be the calm inverse of his fun, booming 2018 hit Reel It In: both led by a quirky flute sample, both carried by a puffed-out-chest swagger, both barely reaching into a three-minute runtime. It appears that Aminé is enjoying a kind of happy stasis, stuck in an artistic limbo of his own volition. ![]() “Niggas call they albums mixtapes ’cause if it flops, it’s an EP.” Nominally an album, Limbo’s meaning finds further clarification in the music. That’s a rather peculiar way of referring to your second studio album when your last “record”, in his case, 2018’s OnePointFive, had a title that suggested it was a placeholder between your debut album and its impending sequel, but was heralded by a comical video expressly telling fans it wilfully defied categorisation: “Mixtapes are albums and albums are mixtapes,” he quipped in a conversation with two doppelgängers in the short ad, posted to Twitter. According to its creator, the Portland-born, 26-year-old rapper Aminé, it’s best described as his “sophomore-ish” album. Limbo lives up to its title in ways you don’t quite appreciate the first time around. He raps charismatically, he sings his own hooks, he writes dedications to his mum without making you throw up: everything Aminé’s doing, he’s doing well, despite being relatively unchallenging ★★★★☆
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