As you dose off into an Oxycontin sleep, Bape© cloud camo quilt tucked to the chin, an icy cup of Easter Pink on your bed stand, flipping through late night T.V., cozy laid out on the Tiger Mink you stole from Action Bronson.  You plug in your headphones to Yung Lean’s Unknown Death 未知の死 2002, leaving the T.V. on, sound off, images fluttering your consciousness away.  You’re off to a foreign land of calming vapors, wingless flight, and fuzzy visions of your entire life compounding into a doughy residue.  Dreaming in the haze of jazzy synths, oceanic crackles, and staggering hums, you float above your dreams.  11 songs into your trip, as you plummet deeper into the specter of your reality, the wind beneath your feet, FRIENDZONE catapults you into a crazed frolic in the clouds.  After 11 songs of (masterful) calm, FRIENDZONE’s work on “Solarflare" eradicates any somnambulant wavves, charging every molecule around Yung Lean with unadulterated delight.  

One of the most bizarre creations spawned by the internet (Yung Lean) released his freshman tape Unknown Death 未知の死 2002, yesterday.  Calling up Bladee (twice) and Baba Stiltz (once) for vocal contributions, Lean grips the tape tight with his aerated, floating vocals.  He glides production from Yung Sherman (3), Yung Gud (3), Gregar (1), Suicideyear (1), White Armor (3), and FRIENDZONE (1).  Not to diminish the contributions of any producer on the tape, but FRIENDZONE’s work on “Solarflare" pushes Lean past the astral sounds on the preceding 11 tracks, ending on a limitless high note.  With an accelerated atmosphere that retains Lean’s plasticity, they elevate his atmospheric presence.  

As Lean boasts fantastical lines about posting up in the Death Star snorting lines of yayo with the Fader, being a molecule, and circling the skies, his voice morphs to the elation that graces this FRIENDZONE instrumental.  With a light introduction of quickly fading and magnifying vocal arousals, they set a human tone to Lean’s joyous hustle.  They dissipate these into claps, pull-backs, cackles, and grumbling bass.  The FRIENDZONE duo sets a skyscraping amalgamation of dryly-energizing pounds, enveloping these emotionally-significant winds in pulsating pulls : they gift-wrap this hallucination of happiness.  Snares cackle a youthful grin into the instrumental, matured with a grave bass; they synthesize past into present, present into past.  

I never expected this sort of energy from Lean.  He closes his airy tape, somber in its atmosphere(s), with one of the most impressively-constructed dream visions I’ve ever heard.  This instrumental is untouchable.  

LISTEN/DOWNLOAD : 

***Again, I Can’t Stress Enough The Importance Of The Preceding Tracks.  "Solarflare" Just Stood Out To Me From An Emotive Standpoint***

DOWNLOAD LEAN’S TAPE HERE, FROM MISHKA.

-CUTT CZAR (HERONALD REAGAN)

FORMERLY KNOWN AS : FRANKLIN WEATHERFIELD AKA DENZEL SPLASHINGTON AKA PATOIS VUITTON AKA CHUCKDEGAULLE