Release Date: 25 May 2018
Label: Mello Music Group
Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 648620331397
Genres: Rap & Hip-Hop  
Release Date: 25 May 2018
Label: Mello Music Group
Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 648620331397
Genres: Rap & Hip-Hop  
Description
No one confronts the abyss better than Chris Orrick. The Michigan ex-factory worker formerly known as Red Pill has spent the last half-decade documenting industrial decay, familial pain, and struggles with addiction better than almost anyone inhabiting this poisoned soil. It's somewhere between Charles Bukowski and Michael Moore, or maybe Atmosphere if he couldn't ignore the arsenic in the air. As Orrick tells it, "Portraits," his latest album for Mello Music Group is a return to form. "I tried to strip everything down to what I think I'm best at: simple, concise portraits of who I am," Orrick says. "Whether that be finding myself through self-portraits, portraits of everyday workers, portraits of the current political moment or portraits of myself told through the eyes of people I encounter daily." From the corroded arteries of the blue-collar heartland, Orrick emerges as one of the most incisive and savage critics of Trump's America. If the American dream is dead, he unflinchingly lays the blame on avaricious corporations, crude demagogues, and structural racism. There's nothing polemical about it: just warm-hearted, gin-flooded depictions of a life where there are few right answers but a litany of wrong ones. The somber piano-based melancholy and rugged drums of "Portraits" thump via an arsenal of producers including L'Orange, Exile, Apollo Brown, and Onra.
Tracklisting
Jordan Hamilton
Kool Keith
Cash Lansky
Marv Won
Joell & KXNG Crooked Ortiz
Apollo Brown
Open Mike Eagle
Elaquent
Chris Orrick