AOTY #6: JPEGMAFIA - All My Heroes Are Cornballs [2019]

Welcome to my Album of the Year highlights! I’ll give you a little run down with a brief history to start, show you the tracklist (with the tracks in bold being my favorites) with all of the featured guests (if any), give you some descriptors that might make you more inclined to check it out (if my recommendation isn’t ain’t for you), and I’ll provide links to stream/buy the project down at the bottom. Enjoy!

JPEGMAFIA is a mad genius. Veteran from last year showed glimpses of his endlessly creative mind, but All My Heroes Are Cornballs pulls out all stops and lets his eccentricities flow. His most venerable, expressive, varied, enigmatic, melodic, and artistic tendencies shine brightly during the ups and downs experienced across the 18 track album. I would hesitate to call this “hip-hop” however, and in fact I don’t think you can classify this album at all other than experimental. You can find more traditional rapping in flashes, but the electronic influences weight out any sort of traditional genres. There’s noise on here, industrial, some vaporwave, some more stable sampled instrumentals, even some pop sensibility here. You can’t pin this man down, and All My Heroes Are Cornballs will surprise you at every turn.

Tracklist

1. Jesus Forgive Me, I Am a Thot

2. Kenan vs. Kel

3. Beta Male Strategies

4. JPEGMAFIA Type Beat

5. Grimy Waifu

6. PTSD

7. Rap Grow Old & Die x No Child Left Behind

8. All My Heroes Are Cornballs

9. BBW

10. Prone!

11. Lifes Hard, Here’s a Song about Sorrel

12. Thot Tactics

13. Free the Frail (Feat. Helena Deland)

14. Post Verified Lifestyle

15. BasicBitchTearGas

16. DOTS Freestyle Remix (Feat. Buzzy Lee & Abdu Ali)

17. Buttermilk Jesus Type Beat

18. Papi I Missed U

This is JPEGMAFIA, AKA the Black Ben Carson, AKA the Black Brian Wilson, AKA the Blacker Idris Elba (ok I made that one up myself), AKA Peggy. The man is as strange as he is profound, and the inner machinations of his mind truly are an enigma.

Recommended if you like:

weird shit, longform but cohesive album experiences, Death Grips, short songs, varied sounds, industrial music, Bjork, electronic music, music that requires attention, clipping., dense and detailed instrumentals

Here’s my original write-up of All My Heroes Are Cornballs:

JPEGMAFIA - All My Heroes Are Cornballs[2019]

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