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D-Block Europe: Rolling Stone review – melodic, codeine-paced palliatives
The rap duo’s lacklustre sex-and-shopping lyrics and relentless AutoTune fail to spoil a spare, effortlessly tuneful set
Instead, tracks such as Eagle, Lady in Hermes and I Need It Now reassert their predilection for spare, almost soporific numbness, with more gleaming melodies a minute than many rappers manage in a lifetime. Young Adz and Dirtbike LB have spoken and rapped eloquently in the past about the horrors of trap life, their unstable mental health and therapy’s consolations, yet interventions here rarely extend beyond sex and shopping (for weed or Louis V bags, usually both). Sometimes Adz’s ever-present AutoTune makes his rapping (“vibrator at home, it’s been a long day”, he encourages tremulously on Bando Aiko) sound like being importuned by a dying robot.
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