Astral Squeaks - the new outer zones of alien rap vocals

And here's another fascinating Kieran Press-Reynolds piece: How Hyperspeed Squeals & Alien Whispers Became Rap's Final Frontier.  It's a deep-dive into the online realm of bedroom rappers who boldly go way out there, - beyond Playboi Carti's baby-voice, beyond even his fetus-voice - into      outermost zones of "rap-sing insanity" that sound more like "experimental ASMR or the national anthems of an alien civilization" than MC-ing as hitherto known. Artists like 645AR, lungskull, meat computer, Axxturel, sellasouls, islurwhenitalk, Jewelxxet et al are leaving behind words and even decipherable emotions for pure texture-play, breath-braiding and vocal-goo extrusion.

Here is Kieran's YouTube playlist for the artists and tracks mentioned in the piece.  

mouth music (peak squeak)

Kieran Press-Reynolds deliriously reviews Playboi Carti's delirious Whole Lotta Red. 

(Ignore the stupid headline, which was not his handiwork).

Here's what Kieran says by way of introduction: "I've written many album reviews. This one, though, is special. I've been waiting two years, two years of trawling through forums for leaks and staying up late expecting the album to drop only to be disappointed. So hyped that I finally got the chance to review this intoxicatingly incoherent mind-trip. It feels a little strange, given everything that's happening in the world, to write so seriously about baby voices and alien gurgle-rap, but hey, sometimes the stupidly fun things are the most comforting, distracting in times of distress."