Apathy - Connecticut Casual

[Mindfulness]

This album for me is Apathy’s best, every song is nice, and it gave me that feeling I was still in Connecticut when I moved to Iowa in 2012. “The Grand Leveler” is a masonic-themed song that connects with me because he is a member of the same lodge, I did my EA degree here in Connecticut. I love the rock samples Apathy did on this album, sampling The Red Hot Chili Peppers on the title track “Connecticut Casual”. The Smashing Pumpkins sample on “Underground Chick” sounds great and the flows on all the songs are top-level stuff. Apathy is a great producer also and has great sampling abilities, the Jay-Z sample on “The Curse of the Kennedys” is also good. Chris Webby makes one of the few guest appearances on the album in “Back in New England” but it listed part of the credits on Spotify on lots of tracks. Anoyd’s verse on “Locals Only!” is nice too.

“Three is the magic number, the stars on the belt of the hunter/ The pyramids of Giza that were built directly under” from “The Grand Leveler” must be the first time this has ever been said in any hip-hop song. “So get your North Face mother****er the winter's begun”, also from “The Grand Leveler” is something I say in my head every time I see someone out here in Connecticut. I live in Connecticut, which is another reason why this album connected with me so much. The sampled hook for “The Curse of the Kennedys” is from Jay-Z’s “Pray” and is a nice song about conspiracy theories sort of.

7 Song Album:

• Connecticut Casual
• Underground Chick
• The Grand Leveler
• The Curse of the Kennedys
• Back in New England (Ft. Chris Webby)
• The Grass Ain’t Greener
• Locals Only! (Ft. Anoyd)

https://open.spotify.com/album/7a5BZ...Sj6RJqv5VmwTHQ