"Make You Sweat" rests on its awesome beat (Zep-sample). Robert Plant's "uh" repeats, blending into an electro effect. The pace of the track doesn't downgrade TIP and showcases his knack for speed. While, most current T.I. material will be an effort to keep him relevant while he serves his sentence, this track doesn't feel restrained or tactful. T.I. isn't locked in, but, "Make You Sweat" brushes up against some of his best work.
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"My Heart" is a great score to Hitchcockian suspense. Something is after us. The third party knows its pace, its vigor, its desire, but, the listener sits treading water unaware. The instrumentation lays out an expansive environment adding to the bleakness of the track's tone. Although there are many elements composing the sound, as a listener you still feel like you are in a void. Perhaps thats Raymond Raposa sentiment as he says "my heart is an empty room for you."
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The guitar in "Elephants" twinkles with John Frusciante similarity. The track starts melancholy from a distance and then approaches you with zeal and uptempo. Jenny Lee Lindberg's vocals are effortless and tasteful, using classic psyche lyrical tactics by using repetition to change the original meaning of the phrase (ie. what sounds like "call me a beast, call me a beast" becomes "come in peace, come in peace" becomes "come in, come in") "Elephants" flirts with recklessness using stretched out aqua vocal effects and constant cymbal splashing, but, never looses its purpose.
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