Oddisee
“The Good Fight”
USA, 2015
(00:00) A1. That's Love
(04:04) A2. Want Something Done
(07:31) A3. Contradiction's Maze (feat. Maimouna Youseff)
(11:47) A4. Counter-Clockwise
(15:44) A5. First Choice
(19:32) A6. Belong To The World
(23:54) B1. A List of Withouts
(28:15) B2. Book Covers (feat. Nick Hakim)
(31:40) B3. Meant It When I Said It
(35:55) B4. Fight Delays
(36:46) B5. What They'll Say (feat. Maimouna Yousef & Gary Clark Jr)
(41:18) B6. Worse Before Better (feat. Tranqill)
Produced by – Oddisee
Mastered by – Brian “Big Bass” Gardener
For Oddisee, “The Good Fight” is about living fully as a musician without succumbing to the traps of hedonism, avarice, and materialism. It’s music that yields an intangible feeling: the sacral sound of an organ whine, brass horns, or a cymbal crash. It’s a meditation on our capacity to love and the bonds binding us together. It’s our ambition and greed warring with our sense of propriety - a list of paradoxes we all face when living and striving.
Oddisee’s production simmers in its own orchestral gumbo. You sense he’s really a jazzman in different form, inhabiting the spirit of Roy Ayers and other past greats. The Fader’s compared him to a musical MC Escher, calling hailing his “grandiose and symphonic sound” and “relevant relatable messages.” Pitchfork praised his “eclectic soulful boom-bap.”
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