André 3000 Releases New Instrumental EP ‘7 Piano Sketches’
If there’s one rapper that refuses to be boxed in, it’s in all probability André 3000. An Atlanta hip hop legend who remains to be round and kicking, casually profitable the most effective rap titles at the present time, has determined to do one thing very completely different this time.
It was not way back that André 3000 dropped an album as a flautist. Now, he has taken issues a notch greater together with his newest EP, 7 Piano Sketches, the place all seven tracks are piano instrumentals.
Every observe begins with a voice asserting the observe title and quantity — which is the one time you actually get to listen to André 3000’s voice on the document. As soon as the announcement is made, he jumps straight into the piano items that represents completely different states of thoughts.
NOT ANDRE 3000 WEARING A WHOLE PIANO OH ICONIC😭😭😭😭😭 #MetGala pic.twitter.com/xkDjrqw954
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Some are completely absurd, just like the observe titled ‘Whenever you’re a ant and also you get up in an superior temper, about to drive your son to high school, solely to find that you simply left the lights on within the automotive final night time so your battery is drained’ — which by the best way, is certainly the entire title. Some are extra sensual, just like the track named ‘I spend all day ready for the night time.’ The nomenclature follows his current inclination for entire sentences as observe names, which was the identical factor he did on his final album, New Blue Solar.
One factor appears clear although, André in recent times has been making music as somebody having enjoyable with completely different crafts, versus pleasing the group. The result’s eccentric expressions of artwork resembling this EP. To advertise the album, André additionally confirmed as much as the MET Gala with a piano attachment on his again, which resembles his sketch on the duvet artwork for the EP. Try the EP under!
