Lav's Music Corner

Real Cultural Shit  EP - Channel Tres Channel Tres is an artist I've been trying to get into for a long time because a lot of my friends who are more casual about their music diets absolutely adore him. Despite that, I never really found much in either of his studio albums or even his essential 2018 self-titled EP. But that didn't mean I was going to give up on his sound, primarily because I've seen some pretty overwhelming praise sent the way of his single 6am  which appears on this EP. One thing I will say for this record is I think the quality of the instrumentals has improved. Channel Tres has always been a genre-blurring project and there are elements of dance, funk, soul, and even some pop and electronica in the mix here but I think they sound better than on previous projects. Unfortunately, I think too many of these songs fails to stick the landing compositionally, delivering about one tik tok's worth of catchy refrains before playing it out in a very awkward way...