okay "New York" is fucking fantastic
― PITILESS LIVE SHOW (DJP), Monday, 16 July 2012 16:33 (eleven years ago) link
Love that it opens with a music box playing 'Over the Rainbow'. How Haze is that. So many feelings. lol.
― twinkin' and drinkin' and ready to fly (Alex in Montreal), Monday, 16 July 2012 16:38 (eleven years ago) link
approve of this aaliyah sample
― J0rdan S., Monday, 16 July 2012 16:41 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah. The Aaliyah sample is great.
Two tracks in and it already feels more cohesive than the previous mixtapes. There's real effort to present Angel in all her facets but less... ramshackle?
Wicked Moon is great, despite it kind of being horrorcore + dubstep + one verse of quasi-toasting + the return of Nicole Wray.
― twinkin' and drinkin' and ready to fly (Alex in Montreal), Monday, 16 July 2012 16:46 (eleven years ago) link
the second verse of "new york" is so amazing
i am - zero past a hundredspittin like a dragon that went missing from a dungeony'all a bunch of n*ggas gettin trippy offa nothingtie a rope a round your neck and lemme kick you off a bungeei'm SAAATAN, and imma take your ass to church nowrunning my fields and you n*ggas on your first downi love it when these bitches know i'm better than emcuz i don't hear not a word nor a letter from em
i'm a fire in the midst of the forest round bitchesand i rap elliptical orbits round bitchesanaconda, i sit with an open mouth bitchesand you bitches are lyrically like some fuckin down's syndromeno offence, no shade and allbut y'all bitches on knees like babies crawlyou can catch me out in covert, chilling like a stoop kidyeah hate, don't talk bitch, do it
― bitch I'm on the 242 (lex pretend), Monday, 16 July 2012 16:47 (eleven years ago) link
Wicked Moon is great, despiteBECAUSE it kind of being horrorcore + dubstep + one verse of quasi-toasting + the return of Nicole Wray.
corrected!
― bitch I'm on the 242 (lex pretend), Monday, 16 July 2012 16:48 (eleven years ago) link
ha I read that description and was "oh is that the fucking fantastic song I'm listening to right now?" and... it was!
― PITILESS LIVE SHOW (DJP), Monday, 16 July 2012 16:50 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah. Fair enough. I think I meant that the description does not sound appetizing and then it is. Mostly the horrorcore + dubstep parts sound iffy when described but it's so damn good.
― twinkin' and drinkin' and ready to fly (Alex in Montreal), Monday, 16 July 2012 16:52 (eleven years ago) link
Also can we talk about how the beat for ‘New York’ sounds like a sample from that Gil Scott-Heron record mixed with the handclap jump-rope ‘No Music’ break in the middle of Lil Mama’s ‘Lipstick’ and the trunk-rattlin’ thump from Grindin’?
― twinkin' and drinkin' and ready to fly (Alex in Montreal), Monday, 16 July 2012 16:58 (eleven years ago) link
my reference point was the Diwali riddim with the synths stripped out, basically Lumidee on steroids
― PITILESS LIVE SHOW (DJP), Monday, 16 July 2012 17:03 (eleven years ago) link
Oh shit. You're right. My bad.
― twinkin' and drinkin' and ready to fly (Alex in Montreal), Monday, 16 July 2012 17:10 (eleven years ago) link
I want to play "Jungle Fever" on endless loop
― PITILESS LIVE SHOW (DJP), Monday, 16 July 2012 17:18 (eleven years ago) link
did she dropped a video with rick ross last year or am i mistaking her for someone else ?
― sisilafami, Monday, 16 July 2012 17:40 (eleven years ago) link
that was Reema Major
― Number None, Monday, 16 July 2012 17:40 (eleven years ago) link
oh yeah.
next question : how is this an ep ?
― sisilafami, Monday, 16 July 2012 17:50 (eleven years ago) link
The same way Dawn Richard's 'Armor On' is.
― twinkin' and drinkin' and ready to fly (Alex in Montreal), Monday, 16 July 2012 17:51 (eleven years ago) link
― PITILESS LIVE SHOW (DJP), Monday, July 16, 2012 10:18 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
otm
― rob, Monday, 16 July 2012 18:45 (eleven years ago) link
have to admit the opening of Sufferings First made me think I was on spotify and one of their shitty guitar-strumming ads had started
― rob, Monday, 16 July 2012 18:50 (eleven years ago) link
New york, hot like fire, werkin girls & realest are the songs i like. The rest is pretty meh imo.
― sisilafami, Monday, 16 July 2012 19:07 (eleven years ago) link
― twinkin' and drinkin' and ready to fly (Alex in Montreal), Monday, July 16, 2012 9:58 AM Bookmark
It is a sample from the GSH record
― chain the color of am0n (The Reverend), Monday, 16 July 2012 23:39 (eleven years ago) link
Jungle Fever 9Remix) the first trk I'm feeling so far.
― pandemic, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 10:20 (eleven years ago) link
And 'Castle On A Cloud' as well.
― pandemic, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 10:26 (eleven years ago) link
"castle on a cloud" is intense
to download:
http://www.djbooth.net/index/albums/review/angel-haze-reservation/
― bitch I'm on the 242 (lex pretend), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 18:17 (eleven years ago) link
WOW at "Werkin' Girls".
― Tim F, Thursday, 19 July 2012 22:46 (eleven years ago) link
like a cheetah in a jungle but i'm muthafuckin fasterlike a pre-teen boy in a church with a pastor
― bitch I'm on the 242 (lex pretend), Friday, 20 July 2012 09:36 (eleven years ago) link
i be on that other shit, got that from my other bitchshe come from an island or a desert or some TUNDRA SHIT
― bitch I'm on the 242 (lex pretend), Friday, 20 July 2012 09:37 (eleven years ago) link
Tundra shit is great yeah
― Number None, Friday, 20 July 2012 09:39 (eleven years ago) link
Best thing I've heard in a while I'm thinking. Real "R.P.M." vibes.
― Tim F, Sunday, 22 July 2012 04:28 (eleven years ago) link
I think I only like a few tracks from this. Too much DEEP THOUGHTS Angel Haze, which I've never had much use for.
― The Reverend, Monday, 23 July 2012 02:46 (eleven years ago) link
― MikoMcha, Monday, 23 July 2012 10:28 (eleven years ago) link
DEEP THOUGHTS angel haze is what makes her special though imo - my favourite trax are also the bangers but without the DEEP THOUGHTS trax she's just another fast-tongued swag rapper with an ear for a simile.
― lex pretend, Monday, 23 July 2012 13:44 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah I agree with that - or, well, I haven't really thought about like the status of Angel Haze as a rapper, but certainly on this the tunes like "Gypsy Letters" and "Castle on a Cloud" really set off my actual favourites like "Workin' Girls" and "New York".
I'm having a very Lex phase at the moment - playing this and Melanie Fiona a lot.
― Tim F, Monday, 23 July 2012 13:48 (eleven years ago) link
"at the moment"
I'm rather behind but really looking forward to this, Altered Ego was great.
― Matt DC, Monday, 23 July 2012 14:10 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, but the DEEP THOUGHTS tracks completely bore the fuck out of me. She doesn't at all succeed in making me give a fuck about her deep thoughts.
― The Reverend, Monday, 23 July 2012 19:19 (eleven years ago) link
If Fall for Your Type and Things Money Can Buy didn't give you feelings I don't know that any of the DEEP THOUGHTS Haze on Reservation will change your mind.
― twinkin' and drinkin' and ready to fly (Alex in Montreal), Monday, 23 July 2012 22:20 (eleven years ago) link
lex, there's now a one month period before you're allowed to complain about people not paying enough attention to angel haze
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/16883-reservation-ep/
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 26 July 2012 17:29 (eleven years ago) link
― twinkin' and drinkin' and ready to fly (Alex in Montreal), Monday, July 23, 2012 3:20 PM Bookmark
ftr, they did not
― The Reverend, Thursday, 26 July 2012 18:23 (eleven years ago) link
― Tim F, Thursday, July 19, 2012 5:46 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this song is awesome. this tape is pretty hit or miss to me, was surprised to see jordan gave it an 8 on pfork
this is why caring about pfork scores is a lose lose, though; i want to see rap not suffer from deflation, but when that's corrected, it makes it look like this album is as good as flockaveli. lose-lose
― google deeznuts (D-40), Thursday, 26 July 2012 19:38 (eleven years ago) link
It is as good as flockaveli (which I also love)
Really excellent write-up jordan
― lex pretend, Thursday, 26 July 2012 21:10 (eleven years ago) link
Also b/c it's jordan it's not really a "pfork score" is it (as with a select few other writers on that site)
― lex pretend, Thursday, 26 July 2012 21:12 (eleven years ago) link
It's maybe a bit unbalanced (possibly too much emo, especially towards the end) but I really like 'Wicked Moon', 'New York', 'Werkin' Girls', 'Gypsy Letters' and the second half of 'Jungle Fever'. Not sure she really varies her flow as much as she could on the slower tracks and some of them feel kinda rote.
Really surprised that I actually like 'Wicked Moon' given that there are a load of signifiers in there that I usually can't stand but they're actually arranged in a way that feels atmospheric rather than just schlocky, and both Angel and Nicole sound great on it.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 26 July 2012 21:14 (eleven years ago) link
someone please tell me what song the melody at the end of 'jungle fever' is quoting/biting please?
― 40oz of tears (Jordan), Thursday, 26 July 2012 21:26 (eleven years ago) link
― lex pretend, Thursday, July 26, 2012 4:10 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
get outta here
― google deeznuts (D-40), Thursday, 26 July 2012 21:28 (eleven years ago) link
for once do you want to defend your position rather than acting like other people are talking like the earth is flat?
― lex pretend, Thursday, 26 July 2012 21:38 (eleven years ago) link
yeah i don't agree w/ that and i'm not necessarily sure that it's a position that requires a defense
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 26 July 2012 21:39 (eleven years ago) link
they're very different works that aren't directly comparable but they're as "accomplished" as each other and they'll probably both end up in my top 10 of the year
― lex pretend, Thursday, 26 July 2012 21:47 (eleven years ago) link
wait are you talking about the new flocka album?
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 26 July 2012 21:47 (eleven years ago) link
...no?
― lex pretend, Thursday, 26 July 2012 21:49 (eleven years ago) link
i forgot that existed (and therefore to listen to it more than once) amidst all of my computer woes
Cheers, that's v v useful thanks
― Dröhn Rock (Branwell with an N), Friday, 18 September 2015 08:31 (eight years ago) link
jack halberstam is the worst
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Friday, 18 September 2015 12:03 (eight years ago) link
moonrise kingdom is terrific
― johnny crunch, Friday, 18 September 2015 13:37 (eight years ago) link
getting a bit obsessed with this album. i love when the beats buckle and distort, i love how she turns pain into power both in her metaphors and her narratives, i love that she's so convincing that she even gets away with actually howling like a wolf
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 22 September 2015 13:41 (eight years ago) link
I've been playing it non-stop since Thursday, "D-Day," "Exposed," "The Wolves" especially.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 22 September 2015 14:10 (eight years ago) link
despite deep deep reservations due to how much I disliked the previous album, I finally played this
holy shit
― I Am Curious (Dolezal) (DJP), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 19:21 (eight years ago) link
This is an incredibly strong contender for my album of the year.
― emil.y, Thursday, 24 September 2015 00:18 (eight years ago) link
same
i was initially drawn to the hard-ass ones where she rips your face off, but wow, the melodies on this thing as well. seems like the one she took from her unfortunate major label experience was how to write better ~emotional hooks than sia. and the way she switches between rapping and singing works so well every time.
love the recurrent wolves and moons, so many lyrics that stop you in your tracks. "i know n*ggas ignore / that the blood in a queen runs the same in a whore", "my brain is a cage, it's the place where the beasts that i'm battling lay, man it's a wrap, i relax in my rage like a bat or a rat in a trap or a cave", "if suffering makes a god then let me know more of it"...those are just from "on fire". "detox" is fucking epic, "exposed" is just so raw
― lex pretend, Thursday, 24 September 2015 17:23 (eight years ago) link
sorry, they, wasn't thinking
i wasn't really put off by dirty gold bc it's always seemed inevitable they'd make better music outside the major label system
― lex pretend, Thursday, 24 September 2015 17:24 (eight years ago) link
i saw angel live a month or so ago and was somewhat put off by her playing new songs for the first 3/4 of the set and jumping into the audience for the second half of the set, making it impossible to actually see her in a crowd of some 6kshe was okay live but it's a single person hip hop show in a huge crowd, unless you're amazing it's hard for that to be the best possible concertanyway, i really need to listen to the new one.
― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 24 September 2015 17:58 (eight years ago) link
So good. In my top 5 for the year to date, for sure. "The Wolves" is :o and don't overlook "Bruises" near the end - a great bit of pop on top of everything else we've been offered up to that point.
― Jeff W, Sunday, 27 September 2015 12:10 (eight years ago) link
in moonrise kingdom its something v obvious but what does the 'you gotta run / or theyll catch us and stop us from growing' sound like? partic how the second half is phrased
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 27 September 2015 21:53 (eight years ago) link
http://sobs.com/2015/6177/angel-haze-back-to-the-woods-tourAngel at SOBs in NYC on November 23 at 8pmGood option for those of you doing the solo Tday thing in the city; except for her penchant for literally taking herself off the stage and general pontification, she puts on a show
― a llove spat over a llama-keeper (forksclovetofu), Monday, 26 October 2015 18:15 (eight years ago) link
a bunch of November US dates
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 15 November 2015 02:24 (eight years ago) link
I like how on “Dark Places,” Haze alternates between rapid, snarled patter and mournful sung verses over nicely programmed instrumentation from Tk Kayembe.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 20 November 2015 20:22 (eight years ago) link
this is a good interview
http://www.standard.co.uk/goingout/music/angel-haze-interview-at-home-i-m-dead-but-on-stage-i-m-god-a3157611.html
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Saturday, 16 January 2016 13:37 (eight years ago) link
(i'm seeing her tonight, hyped)
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Saturday, 16 January 2016 13:38 (eight years ago) link
Reservation has been snuck onto Spotify, in case that might interest you.
― Jeff W, Sunday, 21 February 2016 19:08 (eight years ago) link
Daaaaaaaamn!
http://thefader-res.cloudinary.com/images/w_760,c_limit/AngelHaze_NFrancis_Resurrection_3mb_yjp6xf/angel-haze-resurrection-single.png
http://www.thefader.com/2016/11/22/angel-haze-resurrection-single
― Jeff W, Friday, 25 November 2016 19:03 (seven years ago) link
She's the best.
― Ross, Friday, 25 November 2016 19:15 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0E6KYHxvEGg
classic
― In a slipshod style (Ross), Tuesday, 21 November 2017 05:37 (six years ago) link
love angel haze
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rN_nvLgR2_U
― kolakube (Ross), Saturday, 30 December 2017 23:15 (six years ago) link
back to the woods is a great slept-on record. Fraught with more paranoia and psychosis than the debut but wonderful all the same
― Eris (Ross), Friday, 6 April 2018 15:10 (six years ago) link
Don't know if it was mentioned on here anywhere, but Angel Haze is now called Roes
https://www.gaystarnews.com/article/pansexual-rapper-angel-haze-officially-changed-name/
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 6 April 2018 23:24 (six years ago) link
Classic classic classic
― dig me out requiem (Ross), Tuesday, 11 September 2018 22:01 (five years ago) link
stronghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOycRO6mabo
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 20 April 2021 14:47 (three years ago) link
I have been jamming out to that for most of 2021
― 80's hair metal , and good praise music ! (DJP), Tuesday, 20 April 2021 15:06 (three years ago) link
hell yeah
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 20 April 2021 15:24 (three years ago) link
very nice
― intern at pepe le pew research (Simon H.), Tuesday, 20 April 2021 15:52 (three years ago) link
that's great, nice to see she's back, had she sort of dropped out for a while?
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 20 April 2021 16:28 (three years ago) link
i think she poisoned the water a while back by dropping her album online without coordinating with her label.https://www.mtv.com/news/1719290/angel-haze-dirty-gold-album-leak/
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 20 April 2021 16:58 (three years ago) link
also that album was kind of bad
― 80's hair metal , and good praise music ! (DJP), Tuesday, 20 April 2021 17:18 (three years ago) link