On this Riot Act Review Steve and Remfry talk you through their opinions on the latest album from Chicago born rapper Earl Sweatshirt, Sick!... that’s the name of the album by the way, we’re not just really excited about it. It’s been an interesting life that Mr Sweatshirt has lived, and now, with this being his first release since parting ways with former label Columbia and the promise of more “riskier” material, we get to hear just what he’s been up to in the last three and a bit years. Turns out, like all of us, he’s been stuck in lockdown, and Sick! is another kind of conceptual piece regarding his thoughts on state of humanity during the COVID19 pandemic. At least, that’s what he has said, with a record this slight, its ten tracks clocking in a just over the 24 minute mark, this dreamy and fronted by a man with a fairly lackadaisical flow, it isn’t always that easy to tell. Still, we do our best to decipher it all here.

https://earlsweatshirt.lnk.to/sick (Like the sound of the record? Why not pick up a copy?)

Videos

https://youtu.be/S0yn-5Asyxs (Earl Sweatshirt - Titanic (Official Video))

https://youtu.be/RRA4zbSR8V4 (Earl Sweatshirt - Old Friend)

https://youtu.be/vK3V-3jv58w (Earl Sweatshirt - Sick!)

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