While the arrangements are still spartan and essential, there are attemptsĪt a more sophisticated production, like in Falling 4 Me.Īngst is beginning to sound hummable and danceable. Yesterday that, despite using only guitar and handclap, winks atĪre nested inside more conventional rap and ballad structures,Īnd a more lively and rhythmic approach characterizes The vein of the first album is simply spruced up in songs likeīut elsewhere he tries to be more melodic, like in Lil Peel tried to sound more entertaining on his third mixtape,Ĭrybaby (june 2016), still sparsely arranged but louder and faster. In the same year he released a dozen singles, including: Two days later he released the vastly inferior four-song EP Vertigo (january 2016). (one of his earliest singles) embodied the deepest essence of his melancholia. Mature forms of expression, like the mix of rap and singing inĬalifornia World over a distorted organ drone,Īnd the vibrant singalong Pray I Die over grating guitar sounds and ominous beats īut also more streamlined raps like BeamerboyĪnd more melodic litanies like Let Me Bleed. The six-song EP California Girls (january 2016) included more The tedious soul ballad Nuts is redeemed by the poignant Mirror Mirror is, if possible, even more drowsy and desolate. Mixtape of the same month, Live Forever (11 december 2015).Īngeldust is another stoned trance-y litany but with echoes of Nirvana and the Doors. His vocal skills allow him a broad range of excursions, from theĪcid-folk of Wanna Be to the synth-poppy Ghost Boy,Īnother Song features a sample of Kurt Cobain discussing suicide. (reminiscent of Gram Parsons' Love Hurts)Īnd intones the stately Neil Young-ian meditations It's Me and Shame On U. Wraps his moaning around the anthemic guitar riff of High School He glides over it, elegant and weightless, like a drowning corpse that cannot (his self-portrait as a lonely philosophizing drug-addict)Īnd the lyrical martial-paced Nothing To U.Įxplore deep depression in a more ambiguous way than, say, He raps the stoned sorrowful trance Praying To The SkyĪnd he crucifies himself in the horror cinematic atmosphere of Five Degrees,īut he also sings the angelic elegy The Way I See Things Hand, turned depression and drugs into high art like few musicians His first mixtape Lil Peep Part One (december 2015), on the other The three-song EP Feelz (may 2015) contains twoĬonventional hip-hop songs but also his first existential manifesto, SoundCloud with a wave of rappers that talked about drugs and their Was the quintessential white "emo" hero of his decade, almost like New York-based singer-songwriter Lil Peep, aka Gustav Ahr (1996), ( Copyright © 2019 Piero Scaruffi | Terms of Use)Ĭome Over When You're Sober Pt 1 (2017), 6/10 (mini)Ĭome Over When You're Sober Pt 2 (2018), 4/10 Lil Peep: biography, discography, review, best albums, ratings
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