To the surprise of fans and everyone alike, Freddie Dredd released his newest album titled 'Freddie's Inferno' to all streaming platforms at midnight on August 11th, 2022. Giving just a slight preview as to what the album holds, Freddie sneakily released three singles prior to the albums release, 'Greed', 'Wrath', and finally 'Kick Rocks' which features fellow rapper Lil Darkie and was released just two weeks ago. Last night I sat down and played some Call of Duty Zombies and listened to the whole album nearly twice. It's tight twenty eight minute runtime is a bit shorter than I was expecting it to fully be after seeing
Freddie Dredd tweet two nights ago about the album. But, I enjoy that runtime more than his previous albums, 'Suffer', which was a whopping sixreen minutes long and only ten tracks. Playing that album once is disappointing because it ends so quickly, but with Freddie's Inferno we're left with a little more than last time and I guess a dude can't complain.
The sound and vibe of Freddie's Inferno is honestly no different from Suffer, so if anyone out there was expecting a musical shift in any slight way, you won't find it here. When played right after Suffer, it just sounds like one big album. The only real difference is that Freddie's Inferno has an incredible pop to the basslines across all the songs while it seems he added more tape filter than before. Sometimes in this album, especially on the song Tip-Toe, the tape filter overrides a little too much and his vocals become extremely muffled. But, for 90s memphis phonk tape aesthetic purposes, I fully understand I guess. Just more than my liking. Even though I am comparing this heavily to the album he released two years ago, it still is somewhat of a refreshing listen.
There are insanely catchy and favorable tracks on this album, like the opening track 'Limbo' has such a poppy bassline and fun simplistic tone that it really catches your attention as soon as you hear that bass start it off. 'Wrath' and 'Regardless' both have these really high pitch bell tones or something for the main chords or background samples with head nodding drums. Freddie's flows rhythmically bounce with the beat on every track, as per usual, and of course is never anything to complain about. But his lyrics of course really haven't changed in the last couple of years, so in the future I'm hoping to see a little bit of change in Freddie's musical style, tones, and lyrics.
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-Rhett Rhodes
Very interesting music 😉
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