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senna JMB Shares New Single ‘Lotus’

Published

9 months ago

January 25, 2024

senna JMB, an artist based in Brussels, creates a very personal, vibrant, and surreal world incorporating elements of postpunk, IDM-influenced electronics, experimental pop, and cloud rap.

Integrating the upbeat productions of his favourite producer Kiche, senna JMB meshes his unique style of rap, attempting to blend the flamboyant and the somber, the enigmatic and the direct, within his music.

Returning with his brand-new single ‘Lotus’, this comes ahead of his debut album, Purity, slated for release on February 2, 2024 on all streaming platforms.

The upbeat, carefree-sounding piece ‘Lotus’, with a hint of melancholy, showcases senna JMB’s natural musical ability. Vocals, guitar, beats, synths, and samples are all used in the production of the cloud rap song. senna JMB’s bars and the interesting production make for an engrossing listen.

Focusing on a persona, senna JMB intended the song to represent a character who fails because of hybris; the song exaggerates this picture while addressing the concept of being an artist. The chorus developed after the guitar lines and synths were added. The bridge, some additional sounds, and more vocals were added. It’s one of senna JMB’s most edgy songs off the upcoming album.

On the track, senna JMB says, “a hybris-driven crash, a phantasized hyperbole of artistry.”

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Phil Mac releases Halloween hip-hop banger ‘Shiftin’

Published

3 mins ago

October 18, 2024

Don Reed

In Phil Mac’s insane new video for new banger ‘Shiftin’, which is set for release on 23^rd Oct, a joker inspired dark clown represents the Bristol rapper’s demons, addictions, depressions and fears. Teased at the end of his last video for ‘Follow’, where the clown appeared in a crowd at the very end, the video deals with how the dark side of ourselves may always be hiding in the shadows, whilst we strive to better ourselves in life. The track is out now via Stray Cat Records.

“Shiftin is a track I wrote a little while back, around a time which was involving me going thru a lot of pain and growth thru self reflection, breakdown in relationships, drink and drug abuse”, explains Phil. “I’ve also been wanting to better myself but also I find it hard scratching the surface of who I am as a person, and how I struggle with just living life, but I’ve always been striving to better myself and face up to some of the difficulties I face in order to overcome and learn about myself, acknowledging setbacks and mistakes”, he further reveals.

The heavy hitting track twists with menacing paranoid moods as Phil spits tightly wound rhymes about his trials and tribulations battling to shake free and find a way through his pain. CMHDVisuals created the ‘Shiftin’ video, which features Milo Mooney in the role of the dark clown, Alex Greenwood as an ex-girlfriend and Phil up-front laying down his fierce bars, with Phil and the clown coming together at the end of the video on the Christmas steps to represent acknowledgment of the darkness. It’s a fun eerie horror show in time for Halloween that also portrays some of the real darkness that Phil has been through and how he’s trying to see that pain is a gift:

“I’ll always continue to seek freedom from my demons, but I’ll also be accepting that they are there. I know this journey of life we are all on is a path of ups and down. Challenges will always present themselves and life will not always be plain sailing, this track reminds me of that, life is always moving, but I’ve also realised… even when it doesn’t seem like it, pain can be a gift, and there is always a lot to learn from the difficulties we face in life. We are always Shiftin!!”.