This blog is born of a New Year's resolution challenging myself to write every day. My goal is to regularly update this space with short music reviews—mainly songs, as that seems most manageable, but hopefully some albums as well—in order to exercise my skills of artistic critique (and perhaps expand my own sonic horizons in the process).
Friday, May 11, 2012
"Jumanji" Azealia Banks
Since setting the blogosphere ablaze with last year's tenacious, outrageous "212," Harlem rapper Azealia Banks has been touted as the next big thing in music. While we await her full-length debut later this year, she's keeping fans satiated with a June mixtape, led by single "Jumanji." Full of blaring trumpets, tinkling steel drums and a pounding timpani, the track is like a jungle party where every animal is invited. That includes Banks herself, whose rapid-fire, tongue-twisting delivery is impressive to behold. Though she doesn't offer any snappy one-liners on the level of "I guess the cunt's getting eaten" this time around, "Jumanji" is still just as much a "jammer" as promised. B
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