"My fellow students, be like 'I never knew him'/ I keep having dreams where I die by electrocution," hisses FLEM! on his new project, the lo-fi, gleefully nihilistic NICK@NITE: Episode 2.
Flem wrote the entire album while homeless, recording it in a motel closet in Phoenix, Arizona. The bleakness of its origins hardly camouflages his tongue-in-cheek wickedness — disaffected and bratty. Influenced equally by early Beastie Boys, Sonic Youth, and even the Def Jux/Greedhead record labels, the beat of "DAYLIGHT" was composed and produced by Austin-based rapper/producer GOOSESQ with guitar performance by the Dallas musician, Sage Baker.
On this track, FLEM! is combative, yet aching and self-loathing, reminiscent of those deep dive nights where your eyes begin to strain from the dark Internet rabbit holes.
NICK@NITE is the second half of what he considers his "debut album" alongside the 2017 release, Nickelodeon #$!%Face: Episode 1. Both projects feel and play out like a cartoon, two "shorts" that compose a full 30-minute episode, hence the names and relatively short length of both.
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