If It's Too Loud...

Portland's King Yosef has teamed up with LA's Youth Code on a forthcoming collaborative album. The first single from that album is not going to be for everybody. "Burner" is intense. The group of artists have created a truly unique sound that blends industrial and metal with hip hop. Think of if "Jesus Built My Hotrod" was a collaboration between Ministry and Ice T instead of Gibby Haynes. Based on that description, you already know if you want to hear it or not. Lots of you will have no interest in this one, and that's perfectly fine. For others, "Burner" will be a revelation. Sara Tyler of Youth Code explains the song and video: "The video for 'Burner' puts into perspective the duality of our everyday personas dissected into light and shadow. The constant state of monotony and struggle can lead us to a breaking point within ourselves, and to a path where we might not realize that the actual problem needing to be addressed is us a...

King Yosef is the musical project of Portland, OR musician, singer, and producer Yosef Pelletier. It's hip hop... maybe? His latest single, "The Dull Blade," is far heavier and edgier than most rap we've heard in years, if not decades. It's more like if Atari Teenage Riot was melded with Sleaford Mods, and they decided to go make a straight up hip hop record, but couldn't help but mix industrial and metal with it. King Josef says of "The Dull Blade": "I wrote this song as I was reflecting on a lot of people in my life passing in the last few years.  I always thought that was something that happened when you got older but, here I am in my 20s learning how to keep moving forward with all these people gone. Eventually you start to go numb from it all, in order to keep moving, but it keeps chipping away at you until you don't realize how broken down you are cause you've neglected to look at those circumstances from the fog you're i...