Release Date: 27 October 2023
Label: Mello Music Group
Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 843563152317
Genres: Rap & Hip-Hop Rap & Hip-Hop
Description
Oddisee's breakthrough album: Imbued with love, honesty, and selflessness, The Good Fight is virtuosic in its musicality, direct in its language, and infinitely relatable.
In a landscape overrun with abstract indulgence and shallow trend-chasers, the Prince George's County, Maryland artist has created a record that reminds you that it's music before it's hip-hop.
For Oddisee, "The Good Fight" is about living fully as a musician without succumbing to the traps of hedonism, avarice, and materialism. It's music that yields an intangible feeling: the sacral sound of an organ whine, brass horns, or a cymbal crash. It's a meditation on our capacity to love and the bonds binding us together. It's our ambition and greed warring with our sense of propriety - a list of paradoxes we all face when living and striving.
Oddisee's production simmers in its own orchestral gumbo. You sense he's really a jazzman in different form, inhabiting the spirit of Roy Ayers and other past greats. The Fader's compared him to a musical MC Escher, calling hailing his "grandiose and symphonic sound" and "relevant relatable messages." Pitchfork praised his "eclectic soulful boom-bap."
Tracklisting
Jordan Hamilton
Kool Keith
Cash Lansky
Marv Won
Joell & KXNG Crooked Ortiz
Apollo Brown
Open Mike Eagle
Elaquent
Oddisee
Oddisee
Oddisee
Oddisee
Mello Music Group
Oddisee
Oddisee
