Daring, cynical, and unapologetically reactive, “HITS ALL OVER YOUR FACE [The Peace Bisquit Collection]” makes its entrance. The double EP brings collectively 30 tracks from queer rapper Cazwell, marking his return with a set of remastered songs first launched in 2006.
Standout tracks from “HITS ALL OVER YOUR FACE [The Peace Bisquit Collection]” embrace “Rice & Beans,” that includes distorted vocals that mimic playful, high-pitched youngsters’s voices; the pressing, string-driven “Get My Cash Again”; “¡Spicy!” with Cherie Lily, pulsing with vibrant Latin rhythms; and “Ice Cream Truck,” a cheeky, unfiltered ode to oral intercourse.
Different highlights from this synth-driven, sincere assortment are “Watch My Mouth,” constructed round ’80s online game sounds that shout Cazwell; “Dance Like You Bought Good Credit score,” additionally that includes Cherie Lily, stuffed with daring, irreverent lyrics; and “I Seen Beyoncé…” that includes Jonny Make-up, a witty satire filled with humor and absurdity.
The undertaking’s mission is to disrupt, utilizing humor as a catalyst for fact, truths that, with out the veil of laughter, may in any other case be too tough or dangerous to precise.
“There’s at all times humor injected into the songs I write. To be sincere, I don’t know every other manner. Over time, I’ve acknowledged darkish humor as a survival approach utilized by the LGBTQ group so as to cope, particularly throughout conservative reigns of energy,” the rapper mentioned.
Cazwell has lengthy stood as one in every of queer hip hop’s most irreverent and important voices. With greater than three a long time of expertise and collaborations with icons and indie stars from Manila Luzon to Peaches and Amanda Lepore, he has cast a language of his personal, the place eccentricity and provocation function automobiles for deeper messages of id, delight, and resistance.
The undertaking was produced by Peace Bisquit, the influential Brooklyn-based indie firm celebrating 35 years of championing artists like Extremely Naté, Deee-Lite, and Brooklyn Funk Necessities, whereas additionally working with world stars together with Beyoncé, Sia, and Girl Gaga.
With Invoice Coleman as producer and inventive associate, “HITS ALL OVER YOUR FACE [The Peace Bisquit Collection]” revisits a vibrant chapter of queer music whereas reframing it in opposition to in the present day’s local weather of conservative stress.
“I hadn’t listened to or watched most of those songs and movies from HITS ALL OVER YOUR FACE [The Peace Bisquit Collection] since we initially did them,” Coleman shared. “It’s been fairly sobering and thrilling to look again on them with a way of fearlessness, accomplishment, historical past, and cultural contribution.”
This undertaking distills historical past into two LPs of 15 tracks every, together with three beforehand unreleased singles. The double format underscores the scope of a sonic journey that spans disco, hip hop, EDM, and Latin rhythms, whereas unapologetically exposing the cultural and social contradictions of the previous twenty years.
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