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Originally Posted by Frownland
The new one is grittier/darker with serious/better lyricism, which is closer to El's solo style than their other stuff imo, but ja if there's any solo album that's easy to compare RTJ to it's C4C.
The way I see RTJ's trajectory is that they released the first album as a side project for fun, did RTJ2 as a victory lap, dropped RTJ3 to show that it's no longer just a side project, and doubled down on that with RTJ4 while moving away from a more playful sound into something more dedicated.
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It's been a while, but I rememebr thinking RTJ3 was pretty gritty sounding. RTJ4 might be more "serious" oweing to it being somewhat more obviously political.
Your description of their timeline fits exactly with my interpretation of it. Although, (and perhaps this will change with time) I still find myself liking RTJ2 the most. To me, RTJ1 was basically their "Little Boy" - and RTJ2 was their "Fat Man".