{"id":145059,"date":"2022-11-03T08:30:18","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T12:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=145059"},"modified":"2022-10-31T12:01:33","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T16:01:33","slug":"meg-reviews-component-system-with-the-auto-reverse-open-mike-eagle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=145059","title":{"rendered":"Max Reviews: Component System with the Auto Reverse – Open Mike Eagle"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AlbumIf you\u2019re not already a fan of Open Mike Eagle, be prepared for his newest album Component System with the Auto Reverse<\/a> to be an experience. If you\u2019re already a fan, then you know to expect an experience, I\u2019m here to say it\u2019s an incredible experience!<\/p>\n

In the second track of the album \u201cTDK Scribbled Intro,\u201d he tells us \u201cevery album is a little collection of pieces of yesterday \/ I don\u2019t always have the words for the feelings\u2026 So I decided to make you a tape.\u201d He works through complicated, contradictory feelings in Component System With the Auto Reverse. In \u201c79th and Stony Island\u201d (a reference to his home city of Chicago), he encourages the audience to \u201csee the monster\u201d in him because he thinks \u201cthe quick turns ruin us\/ I used to love Big Bird, then I saw his n-word supercut\/ And Kanye gets to me and then I watch his documentary\/ I’m in a weird place mentally\/ And don’t be ignorance is bliss-ing me\/ If you ignore him, then you dissing me.\u201d And still, after calling himself a monster, he promises us in the mid-album song \u201cCrenshaw and Homeland” (a homage to the city he currently lives, L.A.) he’s not \u201ctoo strange to groove to\/ Half 2 Chainz and YouTube.\u201d<\/p>\n

While he\u2019s working through contradictory emotions, he seems more confident with himself as an artist in this album than any before. He\u2019s no longer asking us \u201cWTF is Art Rap\u201d like he did in his first solo album in 2010 \u201cUnapologetic Rap Art.\u201d Instead, he\u2019s complaining that he\u2019s still being asked this in every interview and celebrating the fact that \u201cTwenty years in, now I know my own vocal range \/ I finally figured it out\u201d in the mid-album track \u201cI Retired Then I Changed My Mind.\u201d <\/p>\n

This album is less narrative than his other more recent albums, but it has all of the wit, introspection, lyricism, and stylized beats fans have come to expect from Open Mike Eagle. Ultimately, it\u2019s a chaotic album, it plays with a lot of feelings and a lot of sounds- inspired by 90s boombox rap, L.A. and Chicago rap, and the reflection of his decade long solo-career. This album definitely made me happy that he changed his mind about retiring, I’m already excited to hear what’s next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you\u2019re not already a fan of Open Mike Eagle, be prepared for his newest album Component System with the Auto Reverse to be an experience. If you\u2019re already a fan, then you know to expect an experience, I\u2019m here to say it\u2019s an incredible experience! In the second track of the album \u201cTDK Scribbled…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":145061,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[151,150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-max-reviews","category-music-review"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/componet.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6V6sR-BJF","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=145059"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145100,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145059\/revisions\/145100"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/145061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}