Hook can’t be likened to any one sound in hip-hop. Some of her beats beep like 8-bit minigames, others are made of single oscillating synthesizer chords; generally, her production has a heartbeat that fades in and out and loops, giving each song its own life, and agitation ther...
Future co-partner of The Silent Boys, John Suchocki, is rooming with a high school buddy of mine and shows great interest when I play him a cassette tape of our early studio recordings. I’m mildly shocked by his enthusiasm and fascination, so we meet up later to play guitar. I play...