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On “Forbidden Knowledge”, Raury drops lines in a skittering, unmodulated flow befitting the swaggering beat, which sets up far better for Big K.R.I.T., who nimbly dips and dives. The 19-year-old actively identifies as a Millenial on one track and jumps actively between genres like scrolling through a Facebook wall full of videos, but his delivery isn’t developed to the point that he can do the same with his voice. “CPU” pairs him with RZA, wisely delivering lines through a gorgeous Auto-Tuned croon, but that just means that RZA’s stuck sleepwalking through some lines about reruns of Diff’rent Strokes. Raury’s simple, yet passionate rap delivery doesn’t fare all that well when forced into shared space with established stars of the genre. But that style is typically coupled with a lack of a precise issue or solution to focus on, instead shouting about everything all at once. That said, the deep burn of the instrumental on “Revolution” is the kind of thing to inspire action to even vague demands for change. “Rotting from the inside out, blood yet clout and clot the jugular of the insipid motherfucker called ‘humanity’ raping and damaging everything in its way, its daughter will be raised on McDonald’s and gasoline water.” The album’s primarily driven by a sincere wish for change and acknowledgment of the world’s ills, but it’s delivered in the near-slam poetry style of a teenager who has learned that things are shitty and wants desperately for them to change. “Lord save this burning earth,” Raury leads on the chanting “Revolution” over hand drums and 808 bass. These two hitches continue to dog All We Need despite its charm. Most of the pieces are pleasant, but they don’t really fit together.
Plus, the song opens on a synth burn, builds through a near-Neutral Milk Hotel acoustic guitar build, makes a stop at a trumpet solo, adds soulful harmonies, and closes only after a rap verse. “Who’s going to take from the rich and give to the ones who never had a chance?/ Who’s going to wipe the tears?/ Are we ever going to overcome the fear?” The thing that we all need, his chorus insists, is love - but nearly 50 years after “All You Need Is Love”, the Lennon-y message rings a bit flat. “Who’s going to save the dying man from his hunger?” he croons before putting even more on his plate. Unfortunately, much like its predecessor, All We Need’s unflinching sincerity and positivity come with an equal portion of inconsistent, scattered focus.įrom the onset, Raury is clearly biting off quite a bit. We have a much better idea of who Raury is now: As the photo suggests, he’s still very young (19 to be exact), wide-eyed, ready to say something, eager to make a connection. The cover to his debut studio LP, All We Need, features a photo of the vocalist, shoulders up. The album art showed half of Raury’s vibrantly illustrated face, looking skyward we were just getting to know him, but there were promising flashes of color, hints that he could ascend to the heights he was eyeing.
Last year, Georgia teenager Raury burst onto the scene with a kaleidoscopic debut project, Indigo Child, a batch of tunes with roots in folk, soul, hip-hop, and rock.
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