Oddisee - The Iceberg
Tracklist
A1 Digging Deep
A2 Things
A3 Built By Pictures
A4 Hold It Back
A5 You Grew Up
A6 NNGE
B1 Like Really
B2 Want To Be
B3 This Girl I Know
B4 Waiting Outside
B5 Rain Dance
B6 Rights & Wrongs
Pinwheel Edition
The prolific MC, producer and musician Oddisee's 2017 album The Iceberg is a plea for humanity to dig deeper in search of understanding and common ground. His third release in just 12 months, The Iceberg is a distillation of stereotypical tropes in hip-hop and beyond, 12 tracks about money, sex, politics, race and religion that appear superficial until his multi-dimensional lyrics unfurl to expose the complexities of individuality and identity: how we see ourselves and how others see us. Deeply soulful, and shot through with jazz, Go-go, gospel, thick R&B and hard beats, the album is a timely, poetic statement. Lead single "Things" acts as a mission statement for the album, a deep dance groove with lightning-quick lyrics about "things" he's going through. Says Oddisee, "We all go through the trials & tribulations of life. Why is it we feel the need to individualize our shared experiences? If only we could see our concerns as others do, maybe they wouldn't be so serious."
