Texas born rap artist Asylum has
released his newest LP record, “Coalesce.”
Texas born rap artist Asylum has
released his newest LP record, “Coalesce.” The album contains
fourteen tracks comprising just over forty minutes worth of excellent
rhymes and rhythms. The style is generally dark and spacious, with
lots of room for his poetry to sink in between the beats. The beats
themselves are heavy hitting and always in a balanced, boxer's
cadence (one, one-two, one-two-three, one...) never annoyingly rapid
fire or clumsily getting in the way of his eloquent lines.
The aforementioned eloquence of Asylum
can not be overstated. Where most rap artists begin with beatboxing
or rap and learn a kind of offshoot of formal poetry from penning rap
lyrics, Asylum began the other way around, growing into rap music
from writing classical poetry. Of this he writes, “I
believe the door to my music opened when I started writing poetry in
high school to pass the time. After having a poem published with a
'shot in the dark' online submission, I realized I may have a knack
for art in some way, but never transformed thought into further
action. A friend later suggested I try rapping after I had shared a
poem over the phone.”
It's
a good thing he did. Asylum's flawless, natural rhythm and groove is
overstepped only by his endless cleverness. Track four on “Coalesce”
is titled, “Mic'd,” the music industry abbreviation for
'microphoned;' Asylum uses it as an acronym for Music Is Common
Denominator. His themes often venture into the metaphysical, or even
transcendental, as the album's title demonstrates ('coalesce' means
to grow together or blend into one body).
Asylum
himself writes of the album's message, “We are all one. We all
share the same emotions: anticipation, joy, anger, fear, sadness,
etc. I am portraying all of those feelings and personalities in one,
just as we all can do if we let go and simply be.”
Asylum even chose white for the album cover to represent the
“Presence of all growing together.” Everything for him is an
opportunity for symbolism.
The
album opens with a simple quote spoken low and seriously: “The
presence of All, looks like None at all.”
Come
for the beats, stay for the intellectual refinement. Asylum's
“Coalesce” is some of the most intriguing rap music the
underground urban scene has witnessed in years.
-S. McCauley
Staff Press Release Writer
MondoTunes
The LP “Coalesce” is
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and is available at iTunes for convenient purchase and download
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