swarvy: anti-anxiety
Francisco Espregueira
Swarvy's edgy productions return with Anti-Anxiety, his second vinyl release with Paxico Records, following last year's fearless BOP. Eighteen tracks long, there's a live-session quality throughout the album. As it plays, song by song, we feel pulled to a dreamy sequence of outer-space hip hop that makes us flow away from reality. At the helm of all instrumentation, production, arranging, and engineering, Swarvy conducts everything intimately with a raw, but well thought, approach.
On the lyrical front, he enlists the minds and talents of many fellow artists, such as LA creatives Koreatown Oddity, Zeroh, and Jeremiah Jae, Ivan Ave, plus more frequent collaborators like lojii, Pink Siifu, and Vida Jafari - who all sequentially push the momentum of the record's storyline, as well as provide dreamy sparks of guidance for the imagination that is touched by Swarvy's dreamy instrumentals.
With all its virtuosity, in its highest highs and moodiest lows, Anti-Anxiety is a beat-scene-relevant and artistic picture of a man, with his instruments and machines, improvising on everyday life and its holy rhythms. Released last week, the album is available in vinyl. For the avant-garde hip hop aficionados.