video review: 'budding ornithologists are weary of tired analogies' by milo

So this was a tough record to write about... I think I stuck the landing okay, but still, I can only imagine the response from the fans on this one, just like with Lupe.

But next up, Resonators, so stay tuned!

album review: 'budding ornithologists are weary of tired analogies' by milo

So the last time I reviewed milo, it was a very different experience... and if those of you who are now wondering where the hell that review is, it was last year when I was in Atlanta and connected with a few members of the Dead End Hip-Hop crew to film for Myke C-Town's channel. And as such, while I did have a chance to go in-depth surrounding my introduction to milo - fairly late in the game, I was never quite pulled on-board in the same way as many fans were with so the flies don't come, really came to like and appreciate who told you to think??!!?!?!?! as one of milo's strongest projects to date - I will stress that milo can be an artist with whom I have a bit of a distant relationship. It's the sort of music I need to be in the right mood to appreciate and dissect, give him plenty of listens to really decode his pool of references and oblique production, and as such while I thought his last album was great, it wasn't something I was in a hurry to revisit last year besides maybe the deep cut 'embroidering machine'. 

And as such, while I was gearing up for another round of abstract hip-hop fresh off of Lupe's massive release, this looked to be a lighter affair - where who told you to think??!!?!?!?! was a respectable length for fifteen tracks, this album didn't appear to have many songs breaking the three minute mark and was reportedly even more abstract and diffuse than the last album... which I'm not against, but I also remember saying that the immediacy of his last album was what I found truly gripping. But still, I wanted to give this some time to really sink in, so what did we get from milo this time on buddy ornithologists are weary of tired analogies?