“Still Cold,” by far the oldest track on here, is still cold as hell (pun intended), and exemplifies the kind of bars-on-bars approach that much of this album lacks. “Riot Ballad” has Lovell passionately defending his girl against an onslaught of other suitors, declaring “I know youse a snitch, but you can’t play my bitch.” The chorus from Wavy Draxler hews a bit too close to the generic leaned-up choruses of Post Malone and the aforementioned, but Lovell’s delivery makes up for it. The track is way too short for how good it is. “PP15 Interlude” goes hard as ***, and the menacing production (courtesy of Lovell himself and Dylan Brady) really helps it to lurch along. Lovell does get some good verses in, thankfully. This hampers some of the edge to the lyrics, and casts many of the more ambitious choruses as overly simplistic. “Guidance” serves as another example of this quirk, where Lovell can barely pull together the chorus without the yeahs serving as an unnecessary lyrical crutch. The song barely escapes the chorus, and every sentence is punctuated with a yeah that serves as the only connective tissue between dissonant and unrhyming words. Just listen to lead single “Contraband” and you’ll see what I mean. Gone are the bars that recall other technical rappers like Bones or Vince Staples. But the lethal and technical flows that Lovell seemed to be overflowing with on previous efforts have been replaced with sing-songy choruses and repetitive structures marked with more filler that belies an aggressively lazy flow. This project is still head and shoulders above something like Lil Boat. That’s not to say that Red Teenage Melody is a bad album, or even on the level of contemporaries like Vert and Yachty. Following up such a statement was always going to be a tall order, and unfortunately Lovell’s newest effort is colored a bit by the trappings (no pun intended) of modern rap. Songs like “The Renegade Never Dies” and “Trees of the Valley” were ice cold, and forecasted the arrival of one of rap’s newest and best iconoclasts. Lovell’s debut album, Concept Vague, was a confident statement that painted in broad black strokes. While piss-poor aesthetes like Lil Yachty and Lil Uzi Vert supposed carry the torch of rap in the mainstream, figures like Lovell are making definitive statements and progressive music that moves the body of work forward. OTTTO-Palooza: OTTTO’s single “Ride Low” is out now.Make no mistake: Night Lovell is one of the best rappers in the game right now. This concert was really special to us and the time we had there was unforgettable. The night was just so special being in Chicago, being at the House Of Blues, and seeing one of our favorite artist play. They really brought it that night because all of our shirts were soaked with sweat from moshing with the crowd. SuicideBoys’ music is intense and in your face. The energy in the room was so intense and the fans knew every word to every song that was played. Seeing the performance from both angles was something we had never had the chance to do before, especially in a legendary venue like House Of Blues. We were able to watch the show from both the floor and the upper level box seats. SuicideBoys went on and the energy in the room exploded - the energy from SuicideBoys was unmatched. It was hard to imagine and process how the night just kept ramping up. His stage presence and command captured all of our attention, and we were going nuts. Night Lovell was an incredible performer.

We haven’t heard much of his music, but the mosh pit was huge for the entire show. When we got in, Night Lovell had just started his set. We walked about a mile and a half to the show through downtown, just talking about how insane this show was about to be. They were playing an afterparty at the House Of Blues, and we ended up getting tickets to go. We began listening to SuicideBoys a couple years back when we were first discovering the rap scene and many other artists we now listen to. SuicideBoys were on it and we were dead set on seeing them play. OTTTO-Palooza: Bryan Ferretti, singer and guitarist with Venice Beach rockers OTTTO, told us about his SuicideBoys/Lollapalooza experience.īryan Ferretti: As soon as we saw the bill for Lollapalooza Chicago, we were ecstatic.

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