Stop Staring At The Shadows

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Leading up to <i>Stop Staring at the Shadows</i>, $uicideboy$ had already made a home in the darkne, swirling sinister, Juicy J–indebted soundscapes with punk melodie, nihilistic lyric, and sprightly triple-time flows that sound like a devil's incantation. From the time they dropped their first projects in 2014, the duo comprising $crim and Ruby da Cherry merged the past and present for dozens of exhilarating releases that could be hedonistic, reflective, and cathartic—the type of transformation that happens when the sky is jet black. Their grim, surrealistic aesthetic remains on <i>Stop Staring</i>, with traces of profound humanity sandwiched between pummeling flows and hymns to opiate. They revel in the dark side on "All Dogs Go to Heaven," hopscotching through fried bass and jittery piano for a thrill ride featuring drug, gunplay, and braggadocio. "What the F**k Is Happening" lives up to its title, with its hellish horns and a kinetic King Goldy sample evoking disorienting intensity; Ruby and $crim's jumpy flows only multiply the immersive effect. With its eerie sound and brutal symbolic lyricism, "F**k Your Culture" plays out like a gruesome horror movie, with $crim letting loose couplets befitting of Satan himself: "I'm blooding, gunning, running with the devil, man/Triple the six up, fuck my b***h up, flipping crucifixe, man." .

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