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Central Track Breaks Down SUEDE Track By Track

Central Track Breaks Down SUEDE Track By Track January 28, 2022

Ft Worth’s own, 21yr old rapper, ULTRAVIOLETENVY’s debut EP, SUEDE, is OUT TODAY! 

Local stalwart pub, Central Track, broke it down track by track. Check it out here. 

WATCH: Japanese Death Poem Video

WATCH: Japanese Death Poem Video November 1, 2021

Directed by Lauren Strom-Berg, featuring original lyrics by Ross Simonini, and with text excerpted from a poem by Inseki, the “Japanese Death Poem (feat. Sound of Ceres)” video continues to explore a series of clips that feature Ross Simonini’s performance art and tracks from his Standards series. 

Standards Vol. 2 is out Dec 3

Ross Simonini - “Japanese Death Poem” (feat. Sound of Ceres)

Ross Simonini - “Japanese Death Poem” (feat. Sound of Ceres) October 28, 2021

“Japanese Death Poem”, the second single from Ross Simonini’s Standards, Vol. 2 is out today and features Twosyllable alum Sound Of Ceres! 

Written by Simonini during the songwriting process for his duo, and also TSR alum, NewVillager’s album, NewVillager, the song depicts the final moments of a person’s life and takes its title from the poems written by Buddhist monk’s before they die. 

Playing sax is Jeremy Greene, a member of Simonini’s high school band. On the drums and bass are Jimmy McBride and Luke Sellick, two jazz musicians Simonini saw performing at Seeds club in New York. Austin Beede of Grateful Shred contributes percussion.  

Introducing ULTRAVIOLETENVY

Introducing ULTRAVIOLETENVY October 6, 2021

PEARLS, the first single from ULTRAVIOLETENVY’s debut EP, SUEDE (out Jan 2022), is a bullet from the pen of a budding new talent. Listen as your new favorite rapper paints a mural of young love, aspiration, and class struggle in America in 2021. A crushing but familiar boom-bap is punctuated by choppy syllables from a voice that’s already earned your trust as if you already knew him. The pitched-shifted hook and ad-lib one-two punch already feel buried in your brain because this track has already made its way to your Best of the Year list.

 
PEARLS was the first track written and recorded for SUEDE. The idea was borne out of UVE’s vision of an open oyster, classically yonic imagery, with a pearl in its center. The main character focuses on the pearl as a symbol of wealth and luxury while his partner is fixated on its representation of lust and sex, “I see a K / she see a KY”.

 
UVE continues in the second verse to criticize the government’s role in suppressing the working class by spinning false publicity narratives, over policing, and other practices that feed into generational financial struggle, “We been waiting too long following covenants / Breaking mankind into pieces,” he observes. And then sarcastically, “We must be loving it”. His community, he concludes, does not die for love, a noble cause, but rather for unnecessary external reasons motivated almost exclusively by money.