Revival Season - Golden Age Of Self Snitching [CD]

Heavenly Recordings

£10.80

Format: CD
Catalogue No.: HVNLP221CD
Barcode: 5400863141936
Release Date: 23 Feb 2024
Genre: Indie/Alternative

• standard CD
• digisleeve

Foreseen by oracles and foretold by angels, the coming together of rapper Brandon “BEZ” (B Easy) Evans and beatmaker/producer Jonah Swilley was, by their own admission, a divine appointment. Both halves musically and spiritually forged in the twin flames of Georgia׳s Pentecostal churches and grassroots hip-hop scene, Revival Season tell straight-shooting tales of our golden age — chop, cops, badass bitches, self-snitches; drug-dealing and revolution — chronicling and critiquing the culture over baselines and beats that kick squarely in the teeth with a platform boot.

Much in the spirit of Swilley’s teenage bedroom beatmaking, their debut album Golden Age Of Self Snitching was pieced together largely self-sufficiently, written both remotely and in person, and recorded between a temporary studio space in a health centre and an ad-hoc setup in Swilley’s dining room. A skeleton team of outside musicians contributed additional parts — with Jordan Manly [Mattiel] and Rupert Brown [Roy Ayres, Raf Rundell] on drums, Shaheed Goodie on guest MC vocals for the jagged, spiralling ‘Pump’, and Raf Rundell [The 2 Bears], with whom Revival Season had previously made the Outernational mixtape (“equal parts Prince Paul and King Tubby”) on hand as “vibe consultant”, bringing additional production to a handful of tracks.

CD TRACKLIST:
1 Look Out Below
2 Barry White
3 The Path
4 Message In A Bottle
5 Last Dance
6 Boomerang
7 Golden Silverware
8 Chop
9 Propaganda
10 Stars
11 Pump
12 Everybody
13 Eyes Open
14 Love To See It