Red Pill - Instinctive Drowning

2016 release. Detroit's Red Pill has a gift for the type of simple, honest everyday truth that made Raymond Carver famous. Perhaps Bukowski, Carver, and Red Pill's own penchant for one too many drinks plays a part, but whatever it is, their unflinching look at our contemporary American lives is what is what draws us in. They bask in the ordinary and glow when describing the mundane. Red Pill's sophomore solo project Instinctive Drowning delves even deeper into the reservoir of his memory and the dangerous rip tide of his future. Produced entirely by illPoetic, the album is a beautifully sprawling soundscape reminiscent more of The Moody Blues or Pink Floyd than traditional Hip-hop. The production accents Red Pill's lyrical storytelling perfectly, while Pill leaves room for the production to breathe on it's own abstractions and set the listener up emotionally before the next verse enters.

1) The New Normal
2) Four Part Cure
3) Club Privilege
4) Stars
5) F*#k Your Ambition (Feat. P.O.S.)
6) Gin ; Tonic
7) Instinctive Drowning
8) When the Devil Knocks
9) All Along the Shore
10) Jeffrey Star