Spacey, thick synth lines bring these perspectives to life on tracks like INFATUATION, MICHIGAN or HOME, with each track’s lyrical content on longing, love, lust and isolation immersing the project’s sound with a low-fi, yet emotional experience. That’s part of the reason why ALL-AMERICAN TRASH is so sentimentally important to the BROCKHAMPTON lineage the project cemented the group’s direction from their sincere, wide-eyed ambitions once discovered in ASF toward something a little more somber, determined and refined, carrying a more focused and conceptual sound befitting a group with plans on taking over the pop world.Īs the breakout tape marking the beginnings of a group coming to understand itself, then, ALL-AMERICAN TRASH reflects a lot of the sounds that snapshot adolescence in the 21st century the uncertainty of growing up outcast and without representation in society, frustration at this neglect, and the ambiguities of trying to find oneself as a result. You only need to take a peek at the transitions between Graduation, 808’s & Heartbreak and My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, for example, to get the idea that Ye was in three distinct places in his life at the time of each album’s recording.

It’s a little wishy-washy as a thought process, but conceptually, albums can function as a package of self-expression this way, whether it’s communicated in art direction and atmosphere, or just very frankly as spoken word.

The reason for this can be pretty introspective a dedicated, fully mixed and mastered studio album is typically some statement from the artist, their particular state of mind or their style at the time, just in Spotify or Apple Music form - and it’s why it will often take intervals of years for artists to release new projects one after another, because it’s only natural to experience a sense of self-progression or maturity wherever it comes at life’s everyday pace. Even without the release of BROCKHAMPTON’s latest LP, ROADRUNNER: NEW LIGHT, NEW MACHINE, already the pop-rap outfit boasts a discography with a sizeable receipt, a catalogue of albums most artists would normally spend twice the amount of time fleshing out.

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