This past Friday, Jack Harlow released a brief rappity-rap album that almost functioned as an apology for the weak-sauce pop-rap album that he released a year ago. Except it wasn’t an apology. Popular rappers never apologize. Harlow kicked off a round of weekend Twitter discourse when he called himself “the hardest white boy since the one who rapped about vomit and sweaters,” but the record’s real what-the-fuck moment came later, when Harlow rapped defensively about the entire idea of white privilege: “It must be my skin, I can’t think of any other reason I win/ I can’t think of an explanation, it can’t be the years of work I put in.” That whole moment feels like something that billy woods could’ve predicted in a stray half-a-bar lyric.
Pioneering screamo faceblasters Jeromes Dream broke up in 2001, but they got back together in 2018 and released a reunion LP called LP in 2019. This spring, Jeromes Dream will follow that album with their new one The Grey In Between, recorded with producer Jack Shirley. This time around, they’re playing without guitarist Nick Antonopoulos; Loma Prieta’s Sean Leary has stepped in to fill his role. We’ve already posted the early track “Stretched Invisible From London,” and now Jeromes Dream have also shared a new one called “South By Isolation.”