No Happy Days – Jehry Robinson Ft. King Iso (reviewed by Dave Franklin)

Some songs have cool beats. Some artists know how to turn this into addictive grooves. But only some can take that a stage further and build a song around real punch. Jehry Robinson can. No Happy Days achieves this because every component, from beat to chord change to vocals to deft rap deliveries, all stack up to create a cool staccato sonic salvo. And although the song swaggers along on a slow groove, it is a groove that lands with one heck of an impact.

And if the impact of the music is refreshing and unexpected, it is nothing compared to the impact of the lyrical message. It is a song that rises out of dark thoughts of self-doubt and struggling with mental pain but one that heads towards the light, finding hope and hopefully redemption as Jehry Robinson breaks free of the shackles that hold him down.

Alt-pop, rap, hip-hop, urban soul…call it what you will, it doesn’t really matter. All that does matter is that No Happy Days is a rallying cry, an anthem for all those who think they are suffering alone, and a reminder that there is always someone who knows what you are going through, always someone to listen to and lean on.