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Hover Between Turning Up and Coming Down with Horse Head's "True Blue"

This is sort of like classic Blink-182 reworked for the Soundcloud rap generation.

LA rapper Horse Head is thriving on the same spectrum as the likes of Ryan Hemsworth, Ricky Eat Acid, Wicca Phase Springs Eternal, and Mackned - all of whom have packed their mountain of cultural influences into a new breed of music that fills the void between emo and hip-hop. We're premiering Horse Head's new release True Blue below.

Featuring "Cry Love" and "Digi Dash" (both of which we've premiered in the past) and production credits from Ricky Eat Acid and Fantasy Camp, True Blue is b2b emotional bangers, perpetually trapped between the turn up and the comedown. With lyrics like "I want you forever, like in death", "You're the angel in the night club" and "Drive the car all over me" sung over almost pop-punk melodies with a West Coast inflection, it's sort of like Blink-182's Dude Ranch reworked for the Soundcloud rap generation.

If I've said it once, I've said it a million times: if The O.C. was still on this would be the kind of music they play when someone dies.

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