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Vikram Joseph: I think dazed, sun-bleached Kevin Abstract is my favourite iteration of Kevin Abstract. I really like the shambling beat and the heat-warped front-porch feel of the processed guitars here — it’s a hazily nostalgic Instagram filter that frames Abstract’s rap in sepia, softening mundanities into a melty, late-night-conversation profundity like summer heat on concrete. He’s turned these tricks before, and, honestly, it continues to work on me. “Peach” even wrings a decent hook out of Dominic Fike; the secondary “peaches and cream” hook is a sloppy mess, but it kind of works with the aesthetic.
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Alfred Soto: A loping Southern-fried midtempo love-me-down seeped in polite Anderson Paak-isms with none of Kevin Abstract’s scabrous humor. I suppose that’s the idea.
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Tim de Reuse: Muffled guitars whine across each other in a delicate, loose mesh underneath a tired monologue; you know, Dominic Fike never really clicked with me, but it turns out all he needed was proximity to Kevin Abstract! It’s prettier than anything he’s released before, but it retains a bit of the thump that characterizes much of Brockhampton’s output and separates it from a thousand other flaccid summer jams trying to get their hooks in before spring ends.
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Ian Mathers: The loose, summery, just-fucking-around vibe is so strong here I think the temperature in my apartment went up five degrees by my third play in a row.
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Nortey Dowuona: Dominic Fike’s sweet, aimless coo opens the sticky, sliding guitar and low, invisible bass grooves hidden with the sowed, growing drums. Kevin calmly lays out his soul for the man he loves as Joba dips in with sweet asides and Bearface continues to make his name as the only bear-related pop singer in existence with a honeyed, warmer croon.
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Tobi Tella: A remarkably mellow outing from some of the boys of Brockhampton reminiscing on a queer romance — it all sounds like it’d be great, but the whole is significantly less than the sum of its parts. The production is almost too mellow, fading into the background, and the lyrics aren’t much more than generic nostalgia and longing. It feels like a song attempting to both stay in the niche they’ve built for themselves, and appeal to the masses and it ends up being the most “meh” of both worlds.
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