Chris Orrick (Red Pill) – Portraits

Label:
Mello Music Group
Art.Nr.:
09539849
Kat.Nr.:
MMG-00105-1

Released:
2018
Cover:
Picture Special
Format:
LP
Pressung:
US - Original
Zustand:
Neu
Vinyl:
Cover:
Genre:
Hip Hop / Rap
Stichworte:
ugly heroes, red pill, gensu dean, apollo brown
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Chris Orrick (Red Pill) - Portraits
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No one confronts the abyss better than Chris Orrick. The Michigan ex-factory worker formerly known as Red Pill has spent the last half-decade documenting industrial decay, familial pain, and struggles with addiction better than almost anyone inhabiting this poisoned soil. It’s somewhere between Charles Bukowski and Michael Moore, or maybe Atmosphere if he couldn’t ignore the arsenic in the air. 
From the corroded arteries of the blue-collar heartland, Orrick emerges as one of the most incisive and savage critics of Trump’s America. If the American dream is dead, he unflinchingly lays the blame on avaricious corporations, crude demagogues, and structural racism. There’s nothing polemical about it: just warm-hearted, sad-eyed, gin-flooded depictions of a life where there are few right answers but a litany of wrong ones.
It’s obvious how loudly the music speaks to Orrick, who is rarely short of opinions or serrated observation. The somber piano-based melancholy and rugged drums of “Portraits” thump via a gifted arsenal of producers including Nolan the Ninja, L’Orange, Exile, Apollo Brown, and Onra. Only two guest rappers appear, Fashawn and Orrick’s partner in Ugly Heroes, Verbal Kent. Orrick carries the rest of the weight and you sense the Atlas burden he shoulders. 
But for the all the poignant complaints, there’s a soulful profundity at the core of the album. It goes further than stress over bills, nicotine and liquor compulsions, and a search for deeper revelation. For a little while, we understand the raw f&cked up complexity of what it means to be a human being in a lunatic world. The portrait is personal, but it’s all of us too.

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TitelFeaturingProducingLänge
A1. Self-Portrait03:33play
A2. Stories03:54play
A3. Design Flaw02:43play
A4. The Rubric Verbal Kent02:41play
A5. Lazy Buddies03:03play
A6. Escape Plan03:18play
B1. Anywhere Instead03:35play
B2. Bottom Feeders03:38play
B3. Barfly03:00play
B4. Jealous Of The Sun03:24play
B5. Mom02:08play
B6. What Happens Next03:13play
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