This new one from electronic music master GrayBeat is the perfect example of why genres no longer work. You could call this vaguely dance or electronic music, but there is so much going on here that it would be hard to bolt that down any more precisely. Post-genre electronica? Let’s go with that for now.
The beats come from a shuffling, hip-hop place (which in turn owes a debt to everything from jazz to James Brown, funk to Chic) over which washes and waves of beguiling sonics create interlocking soundscapes that borrow from everything from pop to soul to R&B to chilled EDM. But, as with the case of most music made in these areas, it is the vocals that are the focal point, and here Hookdiggy blends dextrous flows with understated vocal deliveries to create a musical layer that both communicates directly with the listener through the actual lyrics and whose smooth tones add layer of musicality to the track.
Some might see this song as sitting at the head of the current wave of urban music, where it can jump the generic divides and explore pastures new, matching, melding, molding, and moving in harmony with rawer and more edgy and futuristic sounds. But more than that, it is laying the way for the next chapter; less interested in where music is now and more interested in where it goes next.
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