Around This Time I Was Alone – Hef Soul
01. My Brother Keeper [Intro] f. Just Joey
02. No More
03. Slow Me Down
05. Lesson Learned
06. Basic
07. Mob Ties f. Bizie
08. Wild Things
09. Gwap
10. Paid
11. Times Been Tough
12. Thang Thang
13. Late Night
14. Love To Learn
15. Better Me
16. Protection
17. Blind
18. Hustle (Outro)
This project has allot of love and positive energy flowing through it. To get the bad out the way, it’s a bit too long and a good amount of songs felt like slight copy pasting or just didn’t match up with some of the higher notes on this. Outside of that when this project hits, it really hits. He’s got a radio ready, melodic, and just fun sound. When hes in his singing and bouncy bag it really shines and hits that catchy vibe that will get stuck in your head. When it feels like a throwaway it really dives deep into that we’ve heard this before. He did enough to not really need features and the one he did have didn’t do much for this. Pacing is ok, it has highs and lows. This has lots of dark sounds and positive vibes so that contrast alone will interest folks, might even throw some off when they realize the sound is familiar but hes not talking about money and bitches. In rotation.
Project: 7.6/10 || Art: 9/10 – John D.