Mixing Hip-hop beats with New Orleans Dixieland Jazz, Lazy
Habits’ sound definitely keeps a mixture of the old and new well and alive.
Opening with an instrumental, New Orleans style funeral
march “Processional”, Lazy Habits opens
in a calm, sombre style, which is immediately revoked with the first full
number, “Ashes”, showing how the group mixes rapped lyrics and brass jazz licks
and riffs which creates a hard hitting style and enables the group to get a
range of textures, fusing funky bass riffs, and piano melodies with the horns.
“Surface Dirt”, shows a more mellow side of the band,
opening with a lilting piano solo before coming in with the rest of the band.
Lyrically, Lazy Habits retain just the hip-hop, rap style of
vocals and tend to write about diverse subjects such as modern life, drug
problems, and broken families.
The album is, at 16 tracks, a bit long, which means that
there are some tracks that feel a bit like fillers, which could be taken out to
still leave a fill length album. The tracks follow largely the same pattern,
other than the opening and closing instrumental numbers (“Processional” and “Ghosts
(On My Way/Small Screen)”- which closes the album in a lonely, melancholic
style).
Overall, the album is very well written, and the quality of musicianship
good too. But it could have done with a few fewer tracks in order to retain a
high quality and more contrast between the songs.
5/10
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