10 Milo – Who Told You to Think​?​?​!​!​?​!​?​!​?​!

Rory Ferreira returns to his primary pseudonym, after the incredible success of 2015’s So The Flies Don’t Come, in the year that seemed to need his words more than ever. Or as James Baldwin puts it so eloquently at the beginning of Milo’s new album

“I think in a country like ours, in a time like this, when something awful is happening to a civilization, when it ceases to produce poets, and what is even more crucial, when it ceases in any way whatever to believe in the report that only poets can make”

Milo is making a report for his times, one that only a poet could make. To the feeling of his times, and to the underlying subjective components of it which drive the objective elements above. Perhaps much more subjective than Rory has ever before been under the Milo name. A rejection perhaps, of the forceful, outspoken character he cast himself as with the much more direct, and passionate previous album. And perhaps it’s not quite the blood-pumping listen that previous album was, but there is also great power in the subjectivity of this, in it’s obfuscated, tonal focus. Another supremely challenging and invigorating work from hip-hops most inside outsider.