billy woods x Messiah Muzik - Church ALBUM REVIEW
Well, it’s time to peel back some layers.
billy woods is yet another reason why I changed up my review schedule. If you’ve heard anything by woods, you know that you’re gonna get into more of a deep listening experience. I don’t mean to sound pretentious, but that’s really how it is. woods’s lyrics are cryptic and coded, and the songs themselves are pretty out there and experimental. Listening to a billy woods album usually means that it isn’t a background listen, it’s gotta have your full attention. Earlier this year, woods dropped Aethiopes with Preservation, one of the best albums of the year that I’m still trying to dissect. Every now and then, he drops two projects a year, whether it’s a solo project or an Armand Hammer release with Elucid, and this year’s no different. Entirely produced by Messiah Muzik, Church might be one of woods’s most rich projects yet. Let’s get into it.
Like his last album, I’ve given this multiple listens. I’m still diving into the lyrical content and pulling out little nuggets to see what I can get out of it, and this is what I’ve gotten so far in that regard: At least compared to Aethiopes, they’re very similar in themes. While that album tackles more of a higher concept, this is more akin to Hiding Places or Terror Management, but don’t think that Church is a weaker album even for a second. The murky, abstract nature of nearly every one of woods’s albums is present here. woods’s delivery is the one you’re used to, albeit with not as experimental beats as before. Messiah Muzik, who’s produced for multiple Armand Hammer projects, does an incredible job on the boards, even if I prefer Preservation’s work or Kenny Segal’s too. Even the features were great too [shoutout Bruiser Brigade’s Fat Ray].
It’s no secret that billy woods’s output has already cemented him as a legend in the underground scene, but that doesn’t mean that he doesn’t have to try anymore, and Church is proof of this. Like every album before, it’s definitely worth your time. If you’ve heard anything from woods, it shouldn’t surprise you that Church is yet another great project that extends a fantastic run that began with Hiding Places in 2019. Give him his own church, at this point.
9/10
Listen here
Spotify
Apple Music
YouTube
Bandcamp
Church is a Backwoodz Studioz release.
billy woods is yet another reason why I changed up my review schedule. If you’ve heard anything by woods, you know that you’re gonna get into more of a deep listening experience. I don’t mean to sound pretentious, but that’s really how it is. woods’s lyrics are cryptic and coded, and the songs themselves are pretty out there and experimental. Listening to a billy woods album usually means that it isn’t a background listen, it’s gotta have your full attention. Earlier this year, woods dropped Aethiopes with Preservation, one of the best albums of the year that I’m still trying to dissect. Every now and then, he drops two projects a year, whether it’s a solo project or an Armand Hammer release with Elucid, and this year’s no different. Entirely produced by Messiah Muzik, Church might be one of woods’s most rich projects yet. Let’s get into it.
Like his last album, I’ve given this multiple listens. I’m still diving into the lyrical content and pulling out little nuggets to see what I can get out of it, and this is what I’ve gotten so far in that regard: At least compared to Aethiopes, they’re very similar in themes. While that album tackles more of a higher concept, this is more akin to Hiding Places or Terror Management, but don’t think that Church is a weaker album even for a second. The murky, abstract nature of nearly every one of woods’s albums is present here. woods’s delivery is the one you’re used to, albeit with not as experimental beats as before. Messiah Muzik, who’s produced for multiple Armand Hammer projects, does an incredible job on the boards, even if I prefer Preservation’s work or Kenny Segal’s too. Even the features were great too [shoutout Bruiser Brigade’s Fat Ray].
It’s no secret that billy woods’s output has already cemented him as a legend in the underground scene, but that doesn’t mean that he doesn’t have to try anymore, and Church is proof of this. Like every album before, it’s definitely worth your time. If you’ve heard anything from woods, it shouldn’t surprise you that Church is yet another great project that extends a fantastic run that began with Hiding Places in 2019. Give him his own church, at this point.
9/10
Listen here
Spotify
Apple Music
YouTube
Bandcamp
Church is a Backwoodz Studioz release.
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