New Music: Ratking – “Canal”

Subterranean NYC rap crew Ratking has released, “Canal,” the first single from their upcoming debut album, So It Goes. The song is a fluid assemblage of disparate sounds: a stream of opaque rhymes from Wiki, a high-pitched sample, overwhelmingly loud synths, schizophrenic percussion. No element of the song is individually discernible; the track rolls on as one unit, one experience. The best part of the song is the moment toward the end when additional vocals begin to overlap, like relay racers colliding as they leave their lanes.

“Canal” is a a strange beast,  but attempting to tame it isn’t the right approach. Instead, you have to become a beast yourself, embracing the song’s formlessness and losing your own form as well. Listen below.

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