Perfect Hair
BUSDRIVER
2013
Perfect Hair revolves around the inequality found at the heart of the rich, with the classic idiom us vs. them used as a rallying cry for the record’s foundation. The expansion of this concept clearly alluded to Driver himself, a reflective piece where perfect hair was used as a scapegoat, a thing he wasn’t and didn’t wish to aspire to
What would Gravity’s Rainbow sound like as a rap album? Here is an album which, if we may, reminds the listener of their whispered allegiances to fundamental realities. The brushstrokes are delicate, stabbing, pointed. The overwhelming crescendo they whirl towards may be one of bitterness, and rightfully so. There is also lightness. A black man is giggling and pointing at you. It may have everything and nothing to do with rap and one’s place in it. Humiliation, no longer a threat—but a reality, has been exhausted. Perfect Hair is what remains.
Stand-Out Tracks
Ego Death
Can’t You Tell I’m A Sociopath
Retirement Ode
Motion Lines
