Category: EP – 5 tracks, runtime – 14 min
Genre: Afro fusion
Release Date: 12.December.2025
Rating: ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ – 7.1/10
It’s quite curious how for some time now, Tungi’s been dropping no less than a pair of EP’s per year. Last year’s pair being kicked off by the tone-shifting “Rush” joint & signed off by the project in today’s piece, it’s about time we contextualized dude’s delivery as a point in a trajectory as opposed to an isolated drop.
If 2024’s “Life of Sound” was Tungi’s yet-to-be-surpassed masterpiece, & “With the Gs” his self conscious followup slump, then 2025’s “Rush” seemed to fit the bill for a struggle to reclaim form, an attitude still undisguisable on this latest project. There’s potential downsides to being this prolific, but today they’re beyond our realm of interest. Pros, it is for this piece, and here goes. For one dropping this often has enabled him to accelerate his iteration arc.
Being observers in this space has privileged our team to interact closely with a spectrum of artists, and one challenge we’ve found prevalent among a buncha them is planning paralysis. Stacking up material for some hypothetical future in hopes to refine it to some imaginative career-shifting seminal milestone. But many a time, it’s just another fancy self-own typa procrastination. Tungi seems to have grasped that doing is the best form of planning, and that existent flawed material beats meticulously planned non-existent blueprints. To make it unelegantly obvious, we’re saying we dig his rapid-drop waterfall arc, both for reasons already mentioned, but additionally for the opportunity to craft a meta-project sonic narrative that’d take some a decade. Enough of the panoramic zoom-out, let’s talk about the project at hand, in a clustered way befitting its context.
Thematically speaking, there isn’t much diversity to go off in the lyrical motifs department, but it seems to be intentional. After all, we’ve seen bro have a go at a spectrum of themes at earlier points like, say, on 2024’s first multi-track project. On the latest joint however, it’s back to she-say-he-say+boy-girl sensuality slop. Look, we have no dog against it, just stating what it is, right from the Akeine-buoyed opener to the rest of the joint.
In terms of highlights, our slot for coolest member of the support roster just had to go to Cxnrvd. Bro’s on some suave half-croony melodic tangent and we’re here for it. In the same vein, our fav track on the project was “Until the Morning”. That silky Declan Mike-woven main refrain, coupled with Joka’s cheeky delivery, and main man’s delightful sonic acumen, made for a rather memorable moment. At least memorable enough to make up for some middle filler slump, which wasn’t necessarily unbearable, but certainly not Tungi’s finest material, especially owing to the aforementioned thematic monotone. Silver lining is, dude’s a machine, and before you know it, he’ll have us another multi-track joint to gnaw on in this new year of our Lord. Unleash the cheffery!
