Conceptually and perceptively driven, Lakisha Robinson’s abstract artistic vision is both visually and vocally apparent on her Ray Brady produced debut album Reflections in Real Time, the long awaited follow up to the musician/visual artists three EP’s and mixtape spanning four years. Better known as Kilo Kish despite zesty album introduction ‘Hello, Lakisha’, Kish finds innovation in being a multi-media artist, frequently freeing herself from musics confining bubble to pursue a spiralling palette of creative ambitions: featuring as a month long editor at large for thecreatorsproject in November last year, launching Kisha, her own home products and apparel brand inspired by Japanese minimalism and going ghost on social media in an attempt to zero in on her own self discerned identity. Reflections, her first musical endeavour since 2014’s Across, captures a subjectively vulnerable Kish; providing a tangibly relatable feeling for the listener with each track tackling a different topic human psyche 101 style in a manner which is remorselessly realistic and emotive. With transparent titles including ‘Distractions I: The Opposite Sex’, ‘Age + Self Esteem: A Funhouse Mirror’, ‘Frustrations + Solutions’ and ‘Relief! (My Answers So Far)’, Kish entices the listener into a storybook of human struggles, conflictions and triumphs on all 20 tracks, each chapter told using unique wisdom and personal consciousness. Although painstakingly personal, every track feels like a scattered page ripped from your own journal and serves as a reminder that we’re all not so different after all.
Surprise features from Rejjie Snow and Childish Gambino on ‘Taking Responsibility’ and empirical self doubt anthem ‘Existential Crisis Hour’ respectively break up Kish’s trademark aloof, monotonous sing/rap/speaking hybrid while ‘On The Mend’ steers clear of articulate vocals altogether, centering on atmospheric production, lulling background vocals and luxuriated ambience. Although fairly self explanatory in its title, Reflections in Real Time encapsulates exactly the kind of perpetual chaos that circulates the human brain and ones own thought process, extenuating surrealism and introspective through an alternative future R&B fusion, classic quarter-life-crisis style.
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