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Welcome To The World is the debut studio album from electronic/hip-hop artist Postscript. Recorded in the months of February, March and April of 2011, at Ignition Record Studios in London. The album contains an mix of electronic and dubstep influences alongside indie, grime, and even tribal music, making it a fairly unique sounding album when compared with the blandness in the charts over recent years. Electronic DJ Marksii and hip-hop artist MattY have worked together on producing this creative mix of genres, featuring many hooks and twists to keep listeners interested and stopping songs from sounding similar. “During the recording process itself, there were a number of different influences” Postscript explains, “at some points we’d be listening to a dance song and think ‘lets do something like that’, and at other points we’d hear and be influenced by that. It’s the main reason that it sounds so diverse. People who hated my older songs should love some of the newer ones ‘cause they’re so different, and for people who liked my older songs, there are moments within the album that fit what they’ll want perfectly. I’m just trying to please everyone.” Title: Welcome To The World Released: 5th June 2011 Format: Digital Download, CD Album Recorded: Ignition Recording Studios, London, England (February 2011 – April 2011) Genre(s): dance-pop, electro-house, indie, hip-hop Length: TBC Producer(s): MattY, Kieran Marks Label: Monk on Fire Music 1. Welcome To The World Starting with a sample of a crowd cheering from the distance, then adding a gradually increasing beat, before the speeded grime vocals are added whilst a tribal sounding drum beat matches this speed. More tribal sounding beats are added, whilst a grime electronic sounding note is building behind this. Then a pure electronica based sample is used as the vocals change into the sung vocals of “welcome to the world, looking down it’s not so fun” repeatedly until the song finishes. The lyrics of the song are about entering the music industry, comparing it with entering a new world, in which people look down on you for being a new artist, then how this changes once you become signed to a record label.2. Breeze Using only samples from original Nintendo games, this track is based purely on the original grime style in which Postscript was known for before he was signed. The song doesn’t change in beat and contains rapped vocals from Postscript who talks about the ease of his music career since being signed, along with reasons why he’s changed styles of music and more (the later part for an ironic effect when included with the grime style beat). Postscript finishes the song with an outtake during the recording process of him talking away from the microphone, but still being heard laughing at a joke. 3. Every Minute A slow and low beat opens the song with a simple electronic drum beat matching it. Postscript’s low vocals go at the same speed as the beat, until it starts to build into a slight instrumental drop, before more layers of electronic beats are added and the speed of the sung vocals increase. The song repeats this process throughout the song, until the end in which the beat speeds up more than before and Postscript raps for the remaining part of the song. As the beat increases there is a slight use of distorted guitar, although it is only backing music.4. Magic Spells (With Marksii) A loud booming high-pitched club based keyboard beat opens the song before going into a faster and less noise based bass sound, with Postscripts’ vocals then starting. The beat swaps between the starting beat and the verse beat, as do the vocals, which there are little of. Throughout the majority of the song the sung vocals from Postscript are distorted to make them sound distant, and electrified, giving a robotic effect to the song. Towards the end there is an increase in the speed of the keyboard, and finishes with a sample from Harry Potter, with Lord Voldermort sceaming the spell Crucio. There is no real theme behind the lyrics, Postscript just raps and sings about some sort of drug trip (most likely LSD) and how he suddenly sees spells and bright colours all around him.5. Night And Day Night And Day uses the heavy beat from The Prodigy’s Fighter Beat (a bonus track on Invaders Must Die) which contains a simple hip-hop drum beat, with loud an harmonised keyboard beats over the top. Postscript raps over the top at a fast speed, showing his London accent in the process. The lyrics of the song link with how a boring day job can’t compare with his wild life style, and how he’ll always be the way he is.6. Lower With Clouds The song starts with a slow, heart-warming acoustic guitar provided by Aaron Marks, along with Postscripts vocals, which show a dramatic ability to change his vocal range. It starts with him singing in a low tone and fairly slowly, about how it’s easier to keep your hopes down and just do what needs to be done than thinking optimistically and being disappointed. During the chorus, the guitar becomes slightly more complex rather than playing the simple chords, and Postscript sings “I’ll be the one that’s lower with the clouds, rather than those floating up above me.” The guitar then comes quicker, and Postscript’s vocals become higher and increase in speed, as he starts to question his previous statements, saying that positive thinking has help him get where he as in the music industry and helped him through rough times. There is an instrumental outro in which the guitar continues to play the chorus repeatedly, and then ends.7. Good As Gold (With Marksii) Originally intended to feature on Lights Go Red’s debut album, Marksii has used the key samples from the song and made them slightly different, changing the original from a slow deep rumbling sound, to an increased speed of high electronic beats, with Postscript raping at a fast pace in time with the music. This is one of the only songs in which Postscript only raps and there are no sung vocals. Throughout the song more samples are added in, and as the song ends it all merges into a white noise sound before going static and finishing.8. Shot Yourself A synth beat sounding equal to a violin opens the song, before Postscript’s rapped vocals join along with a simple snare beat and a basic electronic Nintendo based synth loops. The violin based beat returns during the chorus, mixing with the hip-hop drum beat, and Nintendo synth that features in the verses. This repeats its self, with Postscript talking about getting drunk, and then making bad decisions, along with many references to popular culture. Towards the end of the song, an almost dubstep sounding beat replaces the simple Nintendo sound, as the speed of Postscripts rapping increases, this only lasts 15 seconds, before going back to the chorus and finishing with the violin beat, mixed with a low bass beat and the snare drum.9. Monster A club like electronic beat alongside a fast use of snare and bass drum is used to open the song, before changing to more of a bass beat during the verses of the song. The club beat and bass beat are mixed together during the chorus of the song, at the end of the song there is a heavy use of bass guitar and the slight use of electric guitar, replacing the bass beat from a synthesizer. All of this mixed together gives the song a mix of a club anthem and an “indie” alternative rock song. The vocals of the song are all sung vocals, with a clean tone, and all are provided by Postscript.10. Who Needs Sunshine (Featuring Aaron Marks) The closing track on the album gives a different feel towards the album. The mix of an acoustic guitar, and the stereotypical hip-hop drum beat mix together with rapped vocals from Postscript at a slower pace than he is known for. During the chorus both Postscript and Aaron Marks sing at the same time, with a slightly harmonious feel to it. Towards the end of the song the hip-hop drums stop and Aaron Marks sings about not needing to worry about anything, telling the listener to relax and enjoy themselves, along with him playing the guitar is sounds a lot like an indie rock/pop song. The hip-hop drums come back in briefly as the song ends.
Personnel; Postscript - vocals, lyrics, keyboards, programming Additional musicians;Aaron Marks - guitars, bass, vocals on Who Needs Sunshine. Kieran Marks (aka Marksii) - programming, additional keyboards, additional guitars, vocals on Magic Spells Derek Baker - drums, percussion and additional vocals Production;Produced by Kieran Marks (Marksii) and MattY Pre production by Kieran Marks (Marksii) and Postscript Mixed by Alex Smith Additional programming by David Stewart & Wez Clarke Artwork by Darren Maine Photography by Tom Barnes |
