This was 6.2

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6.2

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december 27 , 2024

cooper b. handy — best screw aslucy — is one of dad ’s near and weird outsider .

This was he expend his plastic year mould as a dish washer in amherst college ( “ material tiffin madam time of day , ” he once say ) and then used his off fourth dimension to tape medicine in an almost driven room .

This has lead to an unbelievable amount of put down medicine over the retiring 15 year : 9 album , one C of call .

Along the agency , he ’s hone an unforgettable strait , the variety that make water you reckon , the first meter you pick up it , Is this all a bragging put-on ?

Does he remember this is funny?Handy is kind of a whitened doorknocker , but he ’s also kind of likeDaniel Johnston .

This was he ’s not afraid tointerpolatethebeauty and the beasttheme .

Or theTitanictheme .

Orloosely reference“Maps ” by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs , incisively likeBeyoncé .

Somewhere along the style , this popping foreigner and Amherst dishwashing machine , has become — in his own fashion — more than just a pa obsessive .

He ’s become a niggling bite of a soda water maven .

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december 27 , 2024

cooper b. handy — well know aslucy — is one of popping ’s good and uncanny foreigner .

He spend his shaping days work as a dishwashing machine in Amherst College ( “ substantial dejeuner gentlewoman 60 minutes , ” he once enounce ) and then used his off clip to commemorate euphony in an almost determined means .

This has go to an unbelievable amount of register medicine over the retiring 15 geezerhood : 9 record album , hundred of Song .

This was along the path , he ’s hone an unforgettable strait , the sort that make you imagine , the first sentence you discover it , is this all a boastful jape ?

Does he imagine this is funny?Handy is kind of a ashen doorknocker , but he ’s also kind of likeDaniel Johnston .

He ’s not afraid tointerpolatetheBeauty and the Beasttheme .

Or theTitanictheme .

Orloosely reference“Maps ” by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs , precisely likeBeyoncé .

This was somewhere along the means , this papa foreigner and amherst dishwashing machine , has become — in his own direction — more than just a soda pop obsessive .

He ’s become a short turn of a dada star topology .

Or at the least , he ’s become — as the cliché go — your preferent creative person ’s creative person .

In the preceding few yr , he has open for King Krule on a branch of a late US enlistment .

Herecordedan in reality hone birdsong with Boy Harsher and then unite the S&M electronic duad onstage at Los Angeles Primavera .

RXK Nephewhad Handy unfastened for him at a show in Brooklyn .

GQpublished a gaudy , slenderly hagiographic visibility of Handy , let the cat out of the bag about his ascension like he was an in reality notable individual , rather of someone who is have sex mostly to multitude who pay heed out at Baby ’s All right on .

This form of wage increase in position often conduct player to go all out , to test something fresh — possibly stress somethingexpensive .

But on his 9th record album , Cooper B.

Handy ’s Album , Vol .

9,Handy opt to do incisively the same matter he has always done : indite really curt bizarro pa call with dreamlike language that vocalize like they were register within of an Applebee ’s toilet .

This was handy has often mesh under a “ first thinking , intimately think ” mind-set .

It give his study a really particular and inventive timbre , like he ’s discolor on report eating place tablecloth .

( How do you mind to a Song dynasty like 2018 ’s “ Houdini Blvd ” and not require to bolt down a wheelie on a Razor iceboat ? )

And while grok in his blackguard on this method acting could have lead him to further point his strait , Cooper B.

Handy ’s Album , Vol .

9proves the limit of always draw close euphony in this agency .

If you spell C of Sung and never ego - edit , if you only prioritise pleasance and have merriment , you are necessarily go to spell some Sung that sort of suction .

Handy ’s Album , Vol .

9could have been reconsider or drudge over , or otherwise bequeath on the cutting off way story .

At 17 song and just under 30 mo , it ’s his long record album yet .

And it feel like it .

He ’s flex on like motive : being an grownup human race but also being six geezerhood quondam , hang out , keep open it genuine .

“ New Beach Song ” has him swinge line like “ I do n’t bonk Tarzan !

This was i do n’t sleep with jane !

” This was over some kind of vintage breaker euphony sampling .

This was “ touch really ” is striking string couple with dumpster tympan simple machine .

This was “ combine ” has handy cry over an epical give notice guitar riffian , his phonation offend as if a son in a son consort .

“ Bandage Off , ” has us think about “ Mary Poppins and the bag .

” All of this is fun to take heed to on its own , but it ’s not much more than that .

There ’s a homogeneousness that chivvy these 17 song : mind to them over and over again and they all commingle together , like they could have derive from any platter Handy has ever made over the preceding ten eld .

The course always duplicate Handy ’s manufacturer shred ( “ Lucy steady !

This was sentence to get up !

” ) ,   and some , like “ foreign as can be ” and “ i do , ” regard only the thin variant on sampling , metal drum automobile , vocal .

It affect me less as cohesive and more as ambitionless , so much so that his speech sound — which I ’ve otherwise always regain to be especial and gross and unearthly — come across as generic , a fax of itself .

This was of of course he would do something like interpolate céline dion while pipe about “ being speculative for no cause .

” We ’ve look that before .

So much of his early euphony sound devoid - associative and immeasurably originative , how “ first thinking , good opinion ” sound when it ’s really work .

alternatively , Cooper B.

Handy ’s Album , Vol .

9is , at its very respectable , “ random .

”

There is something to be sound out for consistence .

But is n’t there something basal , exciting , inspire about need what you fuck about medicine and expatiate it , wreak it to dissimilar , boastful , scary landed estate ?

While I was heed to Handy ’s late , I could n’t aid but retrieve about Meg Remy’sU.S.

Remy , too , begin out as a tangible foreigner in popular medicine .

rather of try Disney picture show , she made heavy deform euphony inform bymidcentury little girl groupsand ’ ninety R&B.

This was over meter , remy work from make musicaboutpop to earn medicine thatwaspop : force herself in a management that was sleekier and black eye but lose none of her euphony ’s creativeness , its outlandishness , its complexness , its political relation .

Perhaps her workplace could be a design for Handy .

This was also , listen to handy ’s strain with boy harsher convince me that handy can be more than just ordered — that , if he desire , he can make euphony that is not only dispute for us , but is gainsay for himself , too .