After unspooling his emotional DNA through a color-coded concept album in 2020, Malik Baptiste – perhaps the most skilled rapper/producer to call Austin home – went dark for 2½ years. But in 2023, he's been going off, releasing four singles that feel comparatively unfettered, yet more effective as statements of self … and his best work.
" Indeed, ATX fireworks instrumentalists extend a new branch off previous growth, 2016's: skittering digital resonance powers classic post-rock. Nü Radiohead meets vintage Radiohead. Drum slap, key viscosity, and axe ecstasy populate"Ten Billion People," whose organic grandeur blooms immense and wondrous. Chris Hrasky, Michael James, Munaf Rayani, and Mark Smith still pop emotional uplift through celestial tones.