There's a decent lot that separates Uli K from his contemporaries stylistically. Take one of the well-known collaborators that appear on Goodbye + Goodnight in Yung Lean; his music is usually swamped in bass and though he does indulge in some auto-tuned vocal bliss, it's certainly not the focal point of his music vocally. The vast majority of Uli K's new tape doesn't have a lot of low end, with a much bigger emphasis on the beautiful and pained vocals. The production is almost entirely made up of atmospherics; synths and keys are used to set an ambience more often that to play melodies, although the melodies that do appear are quite great. The tape has a very listless and lost feel to it, but that's entirely by design; you're listening to someone that feels listless and lost in their own existence and everything on the tape reflects that experience. There's a dud or two later in the tracklist, but the first ten or so tracks are nothing short of immaculate. "Anyone But You" and "Dead It" are a clinic in how to do this stuff. Quite the arresting listen.
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