Yeat - Aftërlyfe ALBUM REVIEW

oh no hi everyone down today Town Tano

here the internet's busiest music nerd

and it's time for a review of this new

Yeet album afterlife this is a brand new

LP from California rapper eat who is

currently one of the most notable

figures in the growing wave of Rage

music a dense repetitive and sometimes

trippy sub-genre of trap that's had an

incredible amount of demand ever since

Playboy cardi came out with records like

die lit as well as the more recently

released and also pretty uh inconsistent

a whole lot of red there's been such a

demand for it Cardi's been able to

create this little cottage industry out

of releasing music from Far inferior

artists doing pretty much the same thing

on his own label but recently there's

also been a wave of upstarts

experimenting with the genre around its

edges you have UK artist Lancey foe

whose new project had some pretty out

there moments on it Philly internet

veteran Matt Ox has been dabbling as of

late you and of course you have Noah

Oliver Smith AKA Yee who in terms of

digital footprint has really been

punching above his weight as of late

through a combination of bonafide meme

status and passionate cult fan base the

way this guy's music polarizes people

you would think his fan base is five

times its size but ultimately I guess

that's just an inevitability of exposing

a piece of music to large swaths of

people who were never really intended to

enjoy it because despite its current

popularity with the youth make no

mistake what Yik does is Niche many of

his songs run more one-dimensional than

hooky and dynamic his lyrics aren't

exactly substantive or intelligible a

lot of the time I think it's pretty fair

to call out his music as being somewhat

vapid plus the Warped buzzing thick

layers of bass and synths and auto-tune

vocals are not going to be for everyone

but with that being said I can see the

appeal behind Yeats music too for one

it's deeply visceral and intoxicating

just pure instant gratification with a

side of disassociation I care really

blame his audience for using his music

to unplug from the harshness of a

[ __ ] World they didn't create even

if they haven't fully rationalized as to

why they're doing it so yeet's music is

all that and I'm also here to add on top

of that it's also genuinely weird and

out there especially on this record even

if again he hasn't fully rationalized

why he's doing it now unfortunately in

terms of reviews I came to the eat party

a little late like many my big

introduction to him was through last

year's to Alive which yes had an

instantly recognizable sound but the

Redundant songs and unenthusiastic

performances combined with some muddy

mixes too held the records full

potential back by quite a bit then the

Expanded Edition of the album pretty

much made all of that worse then there

was the even more recently released life

that just kind of felt like more

leftovers from this blow up era in his

catalog so call me surprised when I went

back to listen to an older project like

up to me and found there to be a lot

more clarity and Youthful electricity on

the performances with this record as a

result I felt like I kind of missed

something there and for sure I did but

now on afterlife it feels like Yeet is

finally coming into something else a new

phase where relatively I think he's out

doing himself now the cycling trippy

mind-numbing sounds of two alive are

still in full effect here but this time

around it seems like there's a bit more

method to the madness even if yeat is

arriving to this point just intuitively

because still it's pretty clear he

doesn't

preconceive a lot of what he does on

these tracks in many ways Yeet is kind

of like the definition of uncalculated

which is kind of rare especially for an

artist who is at his level of visibility

now I will say this records Achilles

heel a lot like with two alive is that

yeah it's bloated with 22 tracks and 68

minutes of run time given yeet's love of

Simplicity and repetition I have no

earthly idea why some of these tracks

are landing between three and four

minutes in length I mean there are a few

examples where it works out in his favor

like the opener who's impeccably Eerie

atmosphere pitch black base and creative

ad-libs filling in the background I

could swim in forever but much of the

time Yeet is not bringing enough

versatility and structure to properly

develop a song over that course of time

be it on mean fiend shh better off or

rave party which sounds like anything

but but still even with a handful of

cuts going a bit too long the vast

majority of the tracks on this project I

found to be pretty engaging and actually

experimental for Yeet and this genre of

music Let Me Explain why first with the

vocals Yeats range and inflection have

actually expanded quite rapidly since

his earlier releases and some of the

deliveries and performances he brings on

this project are borderline insane it's

not just that sometimes he sounds like

three different rappers in this rage

Style on a single beat as he switches

from a lower register to more of a

strained melodic lead and then further

down the road something even more alien

no wonder there's so few features on

this record as he plays his own hype man

his own guest singer and his own guest

rapper pretty effectively young boy

never broke again does pick up the pace

on the second half of the second track

here pretty effectively but all the

other appearances of artists on this

record are actually alter egos

attributed to Yeet which he pretty much

confirmed in an Instagram story which

also speaks to the versatility of this

record too there's the song Now

featuring uh love geeky which is a

smooth low-key Ultra melodic track with

a lot of synths layered into the beat

this chipmunked chorus effect on yeast

singing voice it sounds kinda drained

overall I would categorize the track as

being overly long but still make note of

the fact that the song has more of a

melodic sense than I think most people

would give ye credit for which I think

he also showcases on the track none

night change whose intro bars bring this

driving sort of industrial dance beat to

the table that sounds like something off

of a Nine Inch Nails record eventually

eat ends up riffing over this a very

dark Bassy Groove with melodic ad-libs

that feel like a subconscious nod to Kid

Cudi the fact that he always seems to be

in this state of volatility and a

radical change makes the experience of

this album engaging kind of edge of your

seat I'm always looking for what he's

trying to do next whether that be on the

song schmunk where he can be heard

aggressively shushing the beat as well

as blowing raspberries on it there's

various tracks on this thing where he

can be heard screeching like a bird of

prey I have no idea how he's doing this

maybe like uh

I'm so sick right now I can't even make

the sound there's lots of muttered and

growled bars on the track mean fiend a

whispered ASMR flow on the cut watch

which is contrasted eventually with uh

the the sound of I mean obviously it's

ye eat but seems like he suddenly

embodied a cotton-mouthed old man going

on a rant not to mention all the times

on this thing where Yeet is making all

matter of weird wild out there sounds

with his mouth dousing them with effects

and just filling the backgrounds of

these tracks with them he's a man of a

dozen voices at this point like Kendrick

Lamar except instead of switching his

style up for some kind of narrative

Point Yeet is doing it just to be a

silly goose seemingly but yeah there's

some pretty versatile highlights on this

thing be it the cold-blooded Banger slam