EVERYTHING BURNS! by Nakama.

For fans of JPEGMAFIA, Lil Ugly Mane, sound collage, and diary entries from the apocalypse, EVERYTHING BURNS! by Nakama. matches the schizophrenic psyche of our time with an instantly individual style of heavy hip hop. As the title suggests, this album maintains an intense vigilance towards the unique struggles of our times, but this attention manifests on an extremely local, personal scale. Rather than addressing systemic injustice and institutional decay on a macro level, a style which would treat these facts as issues to be debated or diseases to be cured, Nakama. instead shows us the lives most affected by this constantly unfolding cataclysm. Freely associated lyrics tell stories of senseless violence, interpersonal distrust, and unaddressed poverty, all backed by sample-heavy instrumentals which frantically stitch together recordings from all emotions, perspectives, times, and contexts. Just like in our real world, we risk losing these real stories of genuine pain to the deafening noise of digital information, locked in dopamanergic solitary confinement as everything burns beyond.