Deciphering The Inscrutable Rum Brucctree
I review more of Rum Brucctree
Half past five in the morning. I’m awake and about to be done scrolling through my phone. I turn my Bluetooth speaker and link it to my phone. I go to my email and click the link to Rum Brucctree’s music on Spotify.
All the while I’ve been thinking Rum’s got a new extended play. There are about five to six tracks. Two are familiar. I’ve reviewed them before, so what is this? A playlist with Rum’s songs, I take it.
I take a while to dip into the music. Why? One, because I want to make some tea; two, the song titles are lengthy. But the trick if you want to review music is to just put the music on and make sure you have something to write on.
Okay, let’s go. ‘Firegirl Excelsior Autumnal’ is the first song on the playlist. The song features Maria Lidze. We meet Maria at the very beginning of the song, and for a while she fades into a chant that hovers on a sparse and very minimal beat that’s just a drum. When Rum takes his turn, it’s Rum like I’ve never heard before. He does not maintain his gruffiness and is laidback.
If ‘Firegirl Excelsior Autumnal’ is a conventional song, ‘I Joined a Clan O Winterland Cut 2 the Unfortunate’ is a different animal. Rum delivers his flow as a poet. The beat is more like a movie score. Lyrically, is the song a take on the wealthy? It’s surely a cynical song as one voice in the montage claims.
It's the job of the reviewer to find merit in all songs, but comes a song that steals your heart. For me, 'Remanence 1117' is the strongest song on the collection. I love the beat and the delivery.
The song has a couple of ‘rest in power’ messages.
Remanence sounds like a madeup word, but it's an actual word, I find when I look it up , probably a word from physics.
A song with a similar beat is 'Ankhs and Spades', a song Rum's featured by The Clantes.
I know Rum is a serious muso but if you let that beat play, you can jam your head to it.
'Booty 4 a Pirates Purpose' is a strange song. At one point, there's a lady who sounds as if she's choking, yet the lady's giggling afterwards. When Rum comes into the song, he comes bursting.
I've previously reviewed 'Hail The Drivestill' and before listening to it, I'm thinking I'll not review it this time. But I do. I note what I missed before. I hear 'welcome to the Matrix' and I hear mentions of London. This is not Rum rapping, but his featured artist Million Dragons
When the playlist is over, Spotify starts playing me 'I Belong Elsewhere' by Jam Baxter. This must be who Rum sounds like.