Artist: Brxtn
Album: Tease
Articulation: Al "Knowledge" Hart
Foreplay is cool. Let’s rephrase for accuracy: Foreplay is amazing. Few things in life are as enjoyable as kissing, caressing, licking, sucking and touching on a body and mind. But in the context of a full night's sexual escapade, foreplay is just an appetizer. So sure, foreplay is amazing. But an appetizer by itself is just --- well, cool. There is pleasure in foreplay but is there satisfaction?
Knowing the limits of teasing, BRXTN, a Louisville Kentucky singer/songwriter tries his hand at foreplay. No pun intended. He drops a pleasure-provoking album entitled Tease. Much like foreplay, Tease is sensual and touches all the spots the mind needs for stimulation. Love, sex, dreams, fear, future, past, drugs, happiness and pain all get caressed on this 10-track project. Much like its title, the album is a teasing look into a talented mind. A short album shouldn't discourage anyone from enjoying songs like Love, a hopeful anthem about the driving force behind the aspirations of an artist marginalized by higher learning goals. He weaves in and out of the pianos and drums while contemplating if he's going to “walk up to the Dean and tell that nigga eat a dick”.
Songs like Dangerous provide soft melodic spaces to lay in and think on that beautiful woman in your life, who does nothing for you but control your infatuation. Even here, the foreplay is pleasing but not gratifying. Much of the material on the album is brief in time length leaving the listener wanting more. In all fairness, he did name the album Tease. The project offers moments of relaxation and harmony that will engage the listener almost as quickly as it will move on to the next sensitive spot. And just as foreplay does, Tease does all the things to make you desire more. By album end, you will want to keep an eye and ear open for what he plans to do next in music. The foreplay is good. But BRXTN, we are eagerly awaiting more exciting things and complete climatic peaks.
Key Dope:
Dangerous
Take My Hand
Lately