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The inertia in the Milky Wayv collective is an impressive element each artist carries with them. Each drop appears to be better than the last, and they keep the ball moving forward with their individual sounds. The latest to do so is rapper/producer Trey Graves with Lazy Duck, a song that is anything but lazy.
Lazy Duck jumps out at you instantly through crunched 808s and a flabby bass. The sound raises a challenged rhythm off jump that gets more complicated with the addition of soggy chords. The base of the production sounds like these blocks that shouldn't quite fit, but they do. What ties the music together comes in the form of Trey Graves' scratchy bass interjecting an itchy melody to coincide with his vocals/raps. That bass is so damn catchy sometimes the melody of the strings is all you need. However, Trey's opening hook has an apathetic tone. His verse holds a mirroring flow solely to speak to the bums, not on his work ethic. And that attitude is reflected in the lyrics.
Lazy Duck cruises all the way to the outro beat switches. The first reminds me of Steve Lacy's production on the outro for Some Girl, merely in the transition and the fresh canned drums. The second, when Graves fiddles with bass strings, the first couple of notes sound like the first two in Love Galore, creating this blip of neo soul/R&B crossover out of original content.
And there you have it. Lazy Duck put into words.
Listen to Lazy Duck below.
Lead Photo Cred: soundcloud.com
The inertia in the Milky Wayv collective is an impressive element each artist carries with them. Each drop appears to be better than the last, and they keep the ball moving forward with their individual sounds. The latest to do so is rapper/producer Trey Graves with Lazy Duck, a song that is anything but lazy.
Lazy Duck jumps out at you instantly through crunched 808s and a flabby bass. The sound raises a challenged rhythm off jump that gets more complicated with the addition of soggy chords. The base of the production sounds like these blocks that shouldn't quite fit, but they do. What ties the music together comes in the form of Trey Graves' scratchy bass interjecting an itchy melody to coincide with his vocals/raps. That bass is so damn catchy sometimes the melody of the strings is all you need. However, Trey's opening hook has an apathetic tone. His verse holds a mirroring flow solely to speak to the bums, not on his work ethic. And that attitude is reflected in the lyrics.
Lazy Duck cruises all the way to the outro beat switches. The first reminds me of Steve Lacy's production on the outro for Some Girl, merely in the transition and the fresh canned drums. The second, when Graves fiddles with bass strings, the first couple of notes sound like the first two in Love Galore, creating this blip of neo soul/R&B crossover out of original content.
And there you have it. Lazy Duck put into words.
Listen to Lazy Duck below.
Lead Photo Cred: soundcloud.com
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