Rock Genius, Spinelli - #15 Baths - Obsidian lyrics

I love me a good loner album music I can
Just put on and lose
Myself in will Wiesenefeld
(Baths) take us to a dark place
Like the one we all
Venture to when we think about
What came between us
And the person on the other
Side of a relationship but
He keeps his composure in his
Reflections and lulls us
With drum breaks and
Layered effects reminiscent
Of his Anticon label mates
Doseone and Dosh the result is
One of the most
Accessible Anticon releases one that both
Production minded Hip-Hop heads and
Indie kids with an electronically-skewed
Palette can agree on

For an album that according to
Wiesenfeld, aims to be "dark
" it comes off upbeat on the
2nd track "Miasma Sky" and
Doesn't stop there "Phaedra" is the most
Up-tempo track on the album
And it touches on the forces
That control our impulses
Actions and desires:
Phaedra it is you that I
Owe all my lackluster
The thought of dying is dormant in me
Phaedra it is you that made me
We see the historian in Wiesenfeld
Likening his unfaithful
Lover to the forces that control Phadera
Who was cursed to
Lust after her step-son it's his
Way of moving forward
And assigning blame to a
Force beyond his control, maybe
So he doesn't feel the pain
Baths explores themes related to
The dark ages and it's almost as if he
Seeks solace from the negative by
Accepting the nature of
It all in the soundtrack
To this post, "Ossuary
" we see allusions to the black plague:

Once interred, in turn to turn to bone
Ribs like a house to the lord
Once interred, in turn to turn to bone
Bugs come to worship and hordes
He's a very calculated lyricist
But, it's the beat that stands out
On this track and the
Conglomeration of the different facets
Of his production "Ossuary"
Has an industrial rock feel to it
Like if Nine Inch Nails wore
A smile and sped up
Their rhythm wiesenfeld hit's high
Notes that stab melodically
Over the hook and the bass hit's so hard it's
Truly one of the more
Perfect songs I've heard

Despite Wiesenfeld's tongue in
Cheek passiveness
He still manages to really raise
Eye brows and go
Straight to the heart of the matter whenever
He wishes on "Incompatible" he so brilliantly
Copes with the difficulty of
Being honest with himself he's in
A relationship that's going nowhere
But it's still dragging on:

On the nights you roll
Over and introduce yourself
Nurse this erection back to full health
On the nights you roll
Over and introduce yourself i am elsewhere
Wow dude's got some bite in him what
Better way to describe the lack
Of emotion and apathy one feels in
That relationship purgatory, then a flacid
Infirmed penis? It speaks to the
Sexuality of his songs and
The exploration of how comfortable he
Is with his own it made me turn my head when
I heard Baths was on Anticon
An avant-garde Hip-Hop
Label that i grew up with admittedly, i've
Fallen out of touch with their library
But Baths has
Brought me back it shows me how the label
Has matured to cross wayyyy beyond Hip-Hop to
Feature an artist as universally
Talented as Baths to
Continue it's reign if you need me
I'll be listening to old Anticon
Records with my headphones on
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