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June 13, 2021:

Avocado Primary, Nocturne, Ripple.

Selected by Chavo

OCHIENG’S TAKE

Favorite Song: Cloud

Spit Yo' Game/ Talk Yo' Shit: “Choose Your Weapon” by Hiatus Kaiyote is probably my favorite album of all time, so around mid last year I decided that I needed more music like that in my inventory. Through some Spotify deep dives I came across a plethora of new and old age RnB and Neo-Soul artists and of that bunch was Monsune. “Cloud” had been a sleeper hit in my playlist, I only recently rediscovered it this year and it’s been on repeat ever since. “Tradition” is a excellent EP and I’m extremely impressed with Monsune’s talent. He seems to be very confident in his sound and he has some absolutely insane vocal runs that give me full body chills (the end of “Jade” is just *chefs kiss*). The fact I was able to find such a consistent and enjoyable project just fucking around on Spotify confirms my hypothesis that the talent pool in music is larger than ever.

Lit-mus Test: 🔥🔥🔥🔥 

VANESSA’S TAKE

Favorite Song: CLOUD

Spit Yo’ Game/Talk Yo’ Shit: One of the main reasons this record club started was to help us break past what was familiar to us individually and seek out new sounds, artists, genres, whatever — I'm so glad it exists because Monsune is now on my radar. This EP is such a treat; barely 20 minutes of back to back gems. I listened to it on repeat during an especially long and winding drive recently and it got better each time. It was hard to pick one favourite but the chorus on "CLOUD" steals the show. Honourable mention for "MOUNTAIN" though because it's just so pretty. I'm quite sure this short and sweet EP will still in rotation for me this year and I'm already very happy about that.

Lit-mus Test: 🔥🔥🔥🔥

OBELLA’S TAKE

Favorite Song: 1998 (honorable mentions to Cloud & Outta My Mind)

Spit Yo’ Game/Talk Yo’ Shit: Monsune does the thing I love most about an album is just when it starts off and completely grabs you. For me most albums and whether I enjoy them can be boiled down to the first three songs and Monsune brought the vibe front to byke so there was no option but for this to work. It also matches nearly any condition. A drive. A walk. A run. A kickback. A sunday cleaning. The versatility of the vibe is a reflection of the power Monsune is wielding!

Lit-mus Test: 🔥🔥🔥🔥

CALVIN’S TAKE

Favorite Song: Outta My Mind

Spit Yo’ Game/Talk Yo’ Shit: True to his name and a man of his word, Monsune came through and truly rained torrentially on the shores of the GC Record Club — thanks to the storm warning of part-time meteorologist and full-time Club member Ochavious Bombastus Theophrastus. This record really washed over me, and your boy was singing in the rain. Especially nowadays, I praise things for being short but now realize that what I really mean and want is concise. Tradition has a clear concept, mood, style, and - I felt - recognizable influences. There’s still tons of personality on the record though: a little razzle here and dazzle there that make it so that not every song songs in the same way. My favorite of these was all the “ooh’s” in the “Outta My Mind” hook, I mean are you KIDDING me! He knew he had one. Little moments like that really push this project up to the mountain top for me. They’re short and savoured.  Just like this EP.

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Selected by Chavo

VANESSA’S TAKE

Favorite Song: “Breathing Underwater”

Spit Yo’ Game / Talk Yo’ Shit: What kind of intergalactic, atmospheric sounds??? Love this album, I’m so sad that it was never on my radar but thankfully Chavo saved me from missing out on the experience. The instrumentation here is really daring and fun, plus Nai Palm’s voice is fantastic and soulful.

Lit-mus Test: 🔥🔥🔥🔥

CALVIN’S TAKE

Favorite Song: “The Lung”

Spit Yo’ Game / Talk Yo’ Shit: I could listen to lead singer Nai Palm’s voice all day, she really casts a spell; especially on one of my favorites “Laputa” where she enunciates every syllable LAH-PYOO-TAH lol WTF that shit is crazy! It was weird how after I finished listening to this for the first time I’d suddenly gone from a fade to having grown dreads (the Jamaican / white people who go to festivals and wear ponchos and sandals kind of dreads). Alice In Wonderland for the 2010′s.

Lit-mus Test: 🔥🔥🔥🔥  (and a half, for good measure)

OBELLA’S TAKE

Favorite Song: “Shoalin Monk Motherfunk”

Spit Yo’ Game / Talk Yo’ Shit: Acid Jazz that almost exists in another dimension - when I listen I’m like

Lit-mus Test: 🔥🔥🔥  (and a half, for good measure)

OCHIENG’S TAKE

Favorite Song: “By Fire”

Spit Yo’ Game / Talk Yo’ Shit: You guys already know how I feel about this shit right here, top five albums I have ever heard in my life and I will stand by this forever. This shit is truly beautiful and is able to bring out raw emotions in me just through the sounds. Nai Palms connection with nature must play a part with this album because this is some otherworldy mother nature type music. Like the beat switches in the songs are entirely wild and the effects on Nai Palm’s voice be it by her doing naturally or through editing are bone chilling to say the least. Sometimes with things I love little things that people don’t really find impressive or noteworthy I tend to love, like in “Laputa” when Palm says “I’ve been running running but the riot hunts for you you you you” the second time and the beat chops up and her lyrics are slightly delayed I am in love with that stuff man. Anyways I’m dragging on, this shit is mindblowing

Selected by Chavo

OBELLA’S TAKE

Favorite Song: “Church/Liquor Store”

Spit Yo’ Game / Talk Yo’ Shit:  The “Bucket List” theme and skits throughout the tape were charming and really brought the whole thing together for me as a complete story.

Lit-mus Test: 🔥🔥🔥

VANESSA’S TAKE

Favorite Song: “GPS” (feat. Twista)

Spit Yo’ Game / Talk Yo’ Shit: I always have time for these youngsters who take me on a journey through their cities, and teach me something about a place I’ve never been to through their music. This was my introduction to Saba—clearly quite a conscious/self-aware rapper, but not precious about it—and I’m really glad for that (plus the opportunity to hear new Twista for the first time in YEARS.)

Lit-mus Test: 🔥🔥🔥🔥

CALVIN’S TAKE

Favorite Song: “World In My Hands”

Spit Yo’ Game / Talk Yo’ Shit: This is a confident album – “Pull up in my bucket and I’m feeling like fuck it.” Saba best songs skrrt their way into your consciousness and force you to sit up, and open your ears and mind to a place you couldn’t know about until he showed it to you.

Lit-mus Test: 🔥🔥🔥🔥

OCHIENG’S TAKE

Favorite Song: “Most”

Spit Yo’ Game / Talk Yo’ Shit:  This album is what really personified what I liked about Saba. He’s probably bar for bar one of the best rappers in the game as of right now but nowadays that’s not enough, he’s very experimentative with the sounds he uses not just in his beats but with his voice. He was able to blend the lyrical side of himself which he displayed in his first mixtape GetComfortable in songs like “Matilda” and “Knowing” with the more musical side of himself which he displayed in ComfortZone in songs like “Whip” “Scum” and “For Y’all” to make one of my favorite albums of 2016 “The Bucket List”

THE BUCKET LIST PROJECT (SABA)

Selected by Chavo

OBELLA’S TAKE

Favorite Song: “Church/Liquor Store”

Spit Yo’ Game / Talk Yo’ Shit:  The “Bucket List” theme and skits throughout the tape were charming and really brought the whole thing together for me as a complete story. 

Lit-mus Test: 🔥🔥🔥

VANESSA’S TAKE

Favorite Song: “GPS” (feat. Twista)

Spit Yo’ Game / Talk Yo’ Shit: I always have time for these youngsters who take me on a journey through their cities, and teach me something about a place I’ve never been to through their music. This was my introduction to Saba—clearly quite a conscious/self-aware rapper, but not precious about it—and I’m really glad for that (plus the opportunity to hear new Twista for the first time in YEARS.)

Lit-mus Test: 🔥🔥🔥🔥

CALVIN’S TAKE

Favorite Song: “World In My Hands”

Spit Yo’ Game / Talk Yo’ Shit: This is a confident album -- “Pull up in my bucket and I'm feeling like fuck it.” Saba best songs skrrt their way into your consciousness and force you to sit up, and open your ears and mind to a place you couldn’t know about until he showed it to you. 

Lit-mus Test: 🔥🔥🔥🔥

OCHIENG’S TAKE

Favorite Song: “Most”

Spit Yo’ Game / Talk Yo’ Shit:  This album is what really personified what I liked about Saba. He’s probably bar for bar one of the best rappers in the game as of right now but nowadays that's not enough, he’s very experimentative with the sounds he uses not just in his beats but with his voice. He was able to blend the lyrical side of himself which he displayed in his first mixtape GetComfortable in songs like “Matilda” and “Knowing” with the more musical side of himself which he displayed in ComfortZone in songs like “Whip” “Scum” and “For Y’all” to make one of my favorite albums of 2016 “The Bucket List”