Lil Peep shows a new talent for blows – Rolling Stone

In September 2015, Lil Peep's first mixtape appeared online. By the time he published his official debut, Come when you are sober, pt. 1About two years later, he wrote songs with more weight and urgency. The ingredients have not changed: a guitar and a serious rhythmic programming always occupy the front of the stage. But if the first favorites like "Star Shopping" offered an attractive quality to a loop and the first take, the Come The song "Benz Truck" is more taken into account: the speechless choruses double the lead of Lil Peep, a more complicated drum pattern allows you to change the tempo to add a feeling of melee, as well as hollows and holes. slides next to the guitar.

Lil Peep died months after the release of Come when you are sober, pt. 1. But his first posthumous album, Come when you are sober, pt. 2, released today, aims to continue the evolution of the singer to classical pop structures.

Nowhere is this more evident than the title "Hate Me". The lyrics mix the confessional ("I'm just living a shit right now / And I do not want to let you down") and the boastful ("Now, you call me crazy, girl I know / When you say to me that you hate me, I know you do not do it ") as Lil Peep often did in her songs. But this arrangement is a marvel ready for the radio.

Everything here is built to take you by the throat. First comes a short introduction of 20 seconds which establishes the main melody of the track. Then the producers – Smokeasac, IIVI and Lars Stalfors – embark on a juicy and juicy bass line full of twists and twists and turns. After two replicas of Lil Peep, they add precise percussion and percussion. The result is a pleasantly mixed musical message: the lyrics suggest agitation and ambivalence, but each time the initial bass part and percussion programming come together, "Hate Me" is carefree, almost exuberant.

And though Lil Peep often makes fun of bridges in her songs – anyway, they have gone out of fashion to a broad band of modern pop – you'll find a short digression between the second and third choruses of "Hate Me". beat-less, who dismissed attention on Peep's hurt words: "I just want to leave this city / Sometimes I feel like everyone hates me." Then the hook comes back, but the producers refuse to give the full rhythm. This lack of final resolution is not a coincidence, it makes you want to replay the song.

"Hate Me" was not published as a single before Come when you are sober, pt. 2and was not selected to appear on Spotify's flagship playlists such as Today's Top Hits and New Music Friday. But it may be the song that best shows the direction of Lil Peep's music.