{"id":356096,"date":"2021-10-21T20:11:31","date_gmt":"2021-10-21T17:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/hear-don-lifteds-engrossing-new-ambient-rap-album-325i\/"},"modified":"2021-10-21T20:11:31","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T17:11:31","slug":"hear-don-lifteds-engrossing-new-ambient-rap-album-325i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/hear-don-lifteds-engrossing-new-ambient-rap-album-325i\/","title":{"rendered":"#Hear Don Lifted\u2019s engrossing new ambient-rap album 325i"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a4d13fb8c164\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg 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class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/hear-don-lifteds-engrossing-new-ambient-rap-album-325i\/#The_Memphis-based_multi-disciplinary_artist_is_premiering_the_album_in_full_ahead_of_its_release_tomorrow_via_Fat_Possum\" >The Memphis-based multi-disciplinary artist is premiering the album in full ahead of its release tomorrow via Fat Possum.<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#Hear Don Lifted\u2019s engrossing new ambient-rap album 325i<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"deck\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_Memphis-based_multi-disciplinary_artist_is_premiering_the_album_in_full_ahead_of_its_release_tomorrow_via_Fat_Possum\"><\/span>The Memphis-based multi-disciplinary artist is premiering the album in full ahead of its release tomorrow via Fat Possum.<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"content_blocks\">\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-225168\" class=\"content_block 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1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Don_Lifted_by_Amber_Ahmad_ewvqxa\/don-lifted-325i-album-stream-premiere-fat-possum.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Don_Lifted_by_Amber_Ahmad_ewvqxa\/don-lifted-325i-album-stream-premiere-fat-possum.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"60vw\" alt=\"Hear Don Lifted\u2019s engrossing new ambient-rap album &lt;i&gt;325i&lt;\/i&gt;\"><span class=\"img_caption\"><\/p>\n<p>  <span class=\"credit\"><\/p>\n<p>      Amber Ahmad<br \/>\n        \/<\/p>\n<p>      Press<br \/>\n  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-225167\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            Lawrence Matthews was ready to retire his musical alter-ego <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/donlifted.bandcamp.com\/\">Don Lifted<\/a> in late 2019. &#8220;I felt like I was at the end of what that body of work was,&#8221; he told his local alt-weekly, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.memphisflyer.com\/waiting-in-the-moment-the-rise-and-fall-and-rise-of-don-lifted\">The Memphis Flyer<\/a>, in an interview published last week. &#8220;I was just not where I wanted to be.&#8221; He&#8217;d booked a cross-country tour, hoping but hardly expecting that something would come of it, taking two albums worth of material \u2014 lo-fi rap and R&amp;B that embraced shoegaze and experimental indie textures, promising and peculiar music that hadn&#8217;t taken him as far as he&#8217;d deserved \u2014 on the road for what he thought would be the final time. <\/p>\n<p>Matthews would have been busy either way. <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lawrencematthewsart.com\/\">A talented painter and photographer<\/a> with a fine arts degree from the University of Memphis, he works as a program director at <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tonememphis.org\/about\">Tone<\/a>, a Memphis non-profit built by and for Black artists, creatives, and communities. But Don Lifted wasn&#8217;t dead yet. Matt Ross-Spang, who&#8217;s produced albums for Margo Price and the Mountain Goats and engineered albums by John Prine and Jason Isbell, wandered into Don Lifted&#8217;s hometown show on that tour. Taken by the performance, he called a friend at Fat Possum Records, home to Spiritualized, Empath, and X, and told them to pay attention to Matthews&#8217;s music. <\/p>\n<p>Two years on, Matthews is releasing <i>325i<\/i>, his Fat Possum debut as Don Lifted. The album isn&#8217;t a radical departure from his earlier work; Frank Ocean, Bon Iver, and Radiohead are still Matthews&#8217;s clearest musical influences. But Matthews has sharpened his sound, maturing as a songwriter and producer. He&#8217;s not pushing his voice to dominate the mix anymore, instead content to dissolve into the liquid guitars that anchor most tracks. <\/p>\n<p>The ten songs here sound painfully lonely, whether he&#8217;s trying to articulate unrequited love or obliquely referencing the protests that swept the country last year. Just about every album released in 2021 has been a product of the pandemic in some sense, but few seem to have been shaped by it so thoroughly, and fewer still capture the feeling of locked-down anxiety, dejection, and intimacy so viscerally. Even when the track cuts, as it does at the end of borderline-meditative standout &#8220;Lost In Orion&#8221; to the sound of what seems to be his family laughing, the songs still seem to be set inside Matthews&#8217;s head. That&#8217;s somewhere you&#8217;ll find yourself wanting to stay, despite the time the album was made and the challenges he clearly faced in writing through it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This record has been an exploration of self,&#8221; Matthews wrote in a statement to The FADER. &#8220;My love and how it shapes who I am\u2026 A <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> of abstract stories and extended metaphors airier and more poetic than my previous works; ending with a new understanding of what life and love are for me at this stage of my journey.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Listen to <i>325i<\/i> in full below ahead of its release tomorrow, October 22, via Fat Possum.<\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            <iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 350px; height: 853px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=2158696769\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=333333\/package=2445295310\/transparent=true\/\" seamless><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/donlifted.bandcamp.com\/album\/325i\">325i by Don Lifted<\/a><\/iframe><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"author\">\n    <span><br \/>\n      By <span class=\"credit_name\">Alex Robert Ross<\/span><br \/>\n  <\/span><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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