Angel Haze

ha I read that description and was "oh is that the fucking fantastic song I'm listening to right now?" and... it was!

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.

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’?

my reference point was the Diwali riddim with the synths stripped out, basically Lumidee on steroids

Oh shit. You're right. My bad.

I want to play "Jungle Fever" on endless loop

did she dropped a video with rick ross last year or am i mistaking her for someone else ?

that was Reema Major

oh yeah.

next question : how is this an ep ?

The same way Dawn Richard's 'Armor On' is.

I want to play "Jungle Fever" on endless loop

― PITILESS LIVE SHOW (DJP), Monday, July 16, 2012 10:18 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm

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

New york, hot like fire, werkin girls & realest are the songs i like. The rest is pretty meh imo.

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, July 16, 2012 9:58 AM Bookmark

It is a sample from the GSH record

Jungle Fever 9Remix) the first trk I'm feeling so far.

And 'Castle On A Cloud' as well.

"castle on a cloud" is intense

to download:

http://www.djbooth.net/index/albums/review/angel-haze-reservation/

WOW at "Werkin' Girls".

like a cheetah in a jungle but i'm muthafuckin faster
like a pre-teen boy in a church with a pastor

i be on that other shit, got that from my other bitch
she come from an island or a desert or some TUNDRA SHIT

Tundra shit is great yeah

Best thing I've heard in a while I'm thinking. Real "R.P.M." vibes.

I think I only like a few tracks from this. Too much DEEP THOUGHTS Angel Haze, which I've never had much use for.

otm

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.

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.

"at the moment"

I'm rather behind but really looking forward to this, Altered Ego was great.

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.

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.

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/

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, July 23, 2012 3:20 PM Bookmark

ftr, they did not

WOW at "Werkin' Girls".

― 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

It is as good as flockaveli (which I also love)

Really excellent write-up jordan

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)

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.

someone please tell me what song the melody at the end of 'jungle fever' is quoting/biting please?

It is as good as flockaveli (which I also love)

― lex pretend, Thursday, July 26, 2012 4:10 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

get outta here

for once do you want to defend your position rather than acting like other people are talking like the earth is flat?

yeah i don't agree w/ that and i'm not necessarily sure that it's a position that requires a defense

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

wait are you talking about the new flocka album?

...no?

i forgot that existed (and therefore to listen to it more than once) amidst all of my computer woes

oh

i'm confused by "they'll probably both end up in my top 10 of the year" then

as in, flockaveli did (i think?) and reservation probably will

ok i gotta listen to this then. i checker her out before but it sounded like atomsphere idk

atmosphere over drake beats

Also, y'know, the two reviews are by different writers with different opinions and not working to some empirical scale.

the two writers are both posting in this thread! i was about to go into more detail but it prob violates something in my freelance contract so w/e its not important

This is an incredibly strong contender for my album of the year.

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

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

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 6k
she 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 concert
anyway, i really need to listen to the new one.

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.

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

http://sobs.com/2015/6177/angel-haze-back-to-the-woods-tour
Angel at SOBs in NYC on November 23 at 8pm
Good 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 bunch of November US dates

I like how on “Dark Places,” Haze alternates between rapid, snarled patter and mournful sung verses over nicely programmed instrumentation from Tk Kayembe.

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

(i'm seeing her tonight, hyped)

Reservation has been snuck onto Spotify, in case that might interest you.

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

She's the best.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0E6KYHxvEGg

classic

love angel haze

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rN_nvLgR2_U

back to the woods is a great slept-on record. Fraught with more paranoia and psychosis than the debut but wonderful all the same

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/

Classic classic classic

strong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOycRO6mabo

I have been jamming out to that for most of 2021

hell yeah

very nice

that's great, nice to see she's back, had she sort of dropped out for a while?

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/

also that album was kind of bad