Straight outta Gloucestershire! There lives a beat maker by the name of PiffPrankz who’s been making beats for the last 7 months, and from what I can tell from listening to this beat tape, to good effect. I’ll be honest, the dude’s from the South West, and just a hop and skip from my city of Bristol so I was a little bias before I even gave the album a go around, but thankfully my bias didn’t matter either way. It’s a diverse mix of straight chilling tracks, to some more party induced ones (think a Beastie Boys party, not a Soulja Boi one) with a definite signature sound of his own. I’m not a smoker myself, that’s Stix’ department, but I’m pretty sure this would be a go-to record if I did smoke. This vibe is extremely prominent on the tracks “Smoke a Zoob, Spray Bars” and “Associate of Synapse”.
To me it’s a very light sounding record and bypasses a darker sound for a more illuminated and relaxed one. Although that’s probably because the dude’s from the West Country, and we’ve got too much to do on the farms, or rolling around in my pirate ships to worry about gloom.
Pick this up, listen to it and wait for the summer to get here.
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