Title: “Leave A Mess”
Category: Single
Runtime: 3 min 39s
Genre: LoFi rap
Release Date: 21.August.2024
Rating: ★★★★★★★★★☆ – 9.1/10
There’s different kinds of music with potential to make a mark on a scene, but we’ll concern ourselves with two of them. First, it can be in form of a generally new sound, one that stirs the artistic imagination of contemporaries & whoever follows after. Naturally, this is also catalyzed by replicative forces of capitalism. The second kind, though, might not necessarily be new, but only recontextualized or transferred onto a scene. In this case, it’s only contextually new, but not in & of itself. This nuanced status has the potential to offset a pattern. To be seminal. And that’s the case for “Leave A Mess”.
Why the fuss when there’s not that much buzz? Well, that’s precisely why! We believe it to be one of our duties to center necessary artistic shifts and, if possible, even steer them by way of spotlighting. This will by no means take the form of a puff piece or some covert promotion; that’s just not us. But you bet we’ll make moves towards what we’d like to see happen.
Enough of the borderline artistic god complex talk (lol), pivoting back to the single in discussion, what’s special here is less of the lyrical (which slaps on its own) & more of the sonic. We bet Matt & Zynti set out to make just another chill rap-talk-sing combo of a tune, & had no pretensions of crafting anything profound. But even that simple premise on its own is executed near-perfectly on here.
There’s a delightfully optimum mix of tempered vulnerability, emotional angst & loosely playful diction going on, to give conceptual substance to the sound that is the single. More opportunistically, the low fidelity approach reframes the lyrical tension between the two artists & recenters it as an eased down thing of beauty.
Granted, the pair aren’t the first on the scene to have a lo-fi, mildly loved-up rap-sing duet. But there’s a spark about their effort that has us craving to see it replicated. Like a mini-scene within a scene typa thing. It’s a wide template and can take on twists, so little risk of unidimensional fatigue there. We can see ourselves making reference to the piece again in coming months, or framing similar pieces through this lens. It’s no easy feat to have us saying this. I’m sure that if Matt & Zynti themselves chanced upon this review, they may be surprised by these ultra-rave remarks, but y’all did something pretty cool here!
