July 14th, 2022 4:14pm
You Can Keep The Feast And Wine
Quelle Chris “Alive Ain’t Always Living”
Quelle Chris is a rapper and is technically rapping through this song but his vocal performance registers more as some ambiguous combination of conversational speech and very low key soul singing, occasionally making his voice go very flat for a sort of an implied italics effect. The feel of the track is loose enough to seem as though he just happened to stroll by the melancholy piano loop on the street and felt compelled to casually monologue about his philosophy of life. This makes the content of his writing go down easier – there’s nothing self-aggrandizing or overbearing about this, just a weary guy acknowledging just how difficult life can be and coming away with the conclusion that simply being alive with only occasional moments of satisfaction is still far better than the alternative.
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