Review Summary: This album offers a lot of what we heard in his previous album, but at this same time, providing a newer and more polished style.
Over the years, the Maryland rapper has told us his life story, his dreams, and his goals. In Logic’s debut album “Under Pressure”, he gave us an in depth review of his life struggles, while at the same time, grabbing our ear and putting us in his shoes. As for his sophomore album, “The Incredible True Story”, it’s a different kind of journey.
The opening track “Contact”, sends chills down your spine with hard hitting drums and moving vocals. The track makes you curious for what lies ahead, but also leaves you hoping that it is as intense and thrilling as the first song. This album offers a massive amount of “thrills”, whether it’s the hype and exhilaration of “I Am The Greatest”, or the deepness and quite unexpected approach of “City of Stars”, I was always curious of what the next line would be about.
This album offers a lot of what we heard in his previous album, but at this same time, providing a newer and more polished style. There are tracks like “Fade Away” that give you that classic hip hop sample feeling that “Under Pressure” delivered, and then there are songs that are incredibly different like “I am the Greatest” where he states that he can “flow on anything from Premo to that trap ***”.
The background of the album is about 100 years in the future with a couple of people on a ship called the “Aquarius 3”, who are searching for a place called “Paradise”. They touch base about how the last footprint on earth was left in 2063, and how they are currently searching for a new place to inhabit. While they do this, they listen to some “oldies”. The “oldie” that they are listening to here, is Logic’s album “The Incredible True Story”, which is described as “the album that changed everything”. But I believe that my favorite part about this journey when it came to the background of the album, was the spaceship’s voice that talked to them, and that is the voice of Thalia.
If you listened to Logic’s first album “Under Pressure”, then you will very much recognize who Thalia is. She is the “narrator” of his debut album, but also a tribute to A Tribe Called Quest’s album “Midnight Marauders”. But instead of guiding us on our journey through Logic’s life like she did in the last album, she guides Captain Quentin Thomas and Thomas Kye through their journey for a new place to live. I’m not going to say much more, as I don’t want to spoil it for people that haven’t listed to the album yet.
Overall, the album delivers a sound that is not only different to everyone else, but different to Logic as well. If you like rap, I would put this album on a list of albums to definitely listen to. I will admit that I liked his debut album a little more, but I still fell completely in love with the sound of this one.
