Ta-Ku // Songs To Make Up To
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Well, this was a finality, albeit a good one. My thoughts on Ta-Ku's new album. When I first heard it, I was bowled over, and I felt all the #feels he set out to convey, and the album really did conjure up bittersweet memories of cotton candy skies, piggyback rides and nights spent intoxicated. However, I'll admit that there came a point where I got confused. Now don't get me wrong, Ta-Ku is, without a doubt, one of my absolute favourite music producers out there, and I'd trade a double mcspicy for him any day, but some of the tracks in the album made it difficult to differentiate it from its predecessor, Songs To Break Up To (2013).
Akin to it's two-year old twin, Songs To Make Up To revolves around a myriad of #feels and Ta-Ku's slick maneuvers, however, some tracks were vaguely predictable and barely conveyed lukewarm emotion, or should I say, #feels. My personal favourites were Long Time No See ft. Atu and Sunrise/Beautiful ft. Jordan Rakei. Drenched with pure and uncluttered sentiment, these tracks were the ones that were free from any sort of beat-layering pretence, and really shone a light on Ta-Ku's rhythmic genius. That being said, perhaps the highs and lows of the album serve to convey and carry a deeply poignant sense of longing for a love once lost, and perhaps translates as an accurate aural manifestation of the beauty in having everything you've lost come back to you.
Released: June 12, 2015, ℗ 2015 Fool's Gold Records, Available on iTunes, $7.99.
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