The album opens with ‘Crow,’ a perfect fit as the first page in this 20 page story. It gives off feelings of a new beginning, the start of something big that you can effectively dip your toes into. Next, ‘TFW You Stand on the DJ Table (The Final Chapter)’ unleashes Tsuruda’s powerful side, beginning with a huge half-time drop that continues getting more trappy as it continues. Elements are added and subtracted on the fly, adding new levels of engagement. ‘I’m Still Here’ comes next, which features one of my current favorite openings to a song. I absolutely love the middle-eastern vibe of the intro, which gives it so much personality. This is definitely a song that you could get rowdy too.

Something prevalent throughout the entirety of the album are constant switch-ups so the beat never becomes stale and the listener’s ears never quite know what to expect, in the best way possible. This doesn’t happen from song to song, but even on a smaller-scale; where each section of a song has the possibility of being vastly different from its other pieces. ‘Apples’, ‘Devil Man’, and ‘DC Boiz’ are great examples of this as they all have parts that almost seem completely foreign when compared back to themselves. ‘Apples’ incorporates outstanding lo-fi hip hop at the beginning into a much more energetic trap ending, and ‘Devil Man’ uses a Japanese rapper’s vocals over the top of a fantastic beat which is very refreshing as it seems most vocals used as samples are in English nowadays. ‘Ode to Losco’ is just as it’s named, incorporating the Dutch trap masterminds’ insane amounts of low-end that will push any speaker system to its limit. ‘Bricks’ has very warm, welcoming vibes, while ‘Skeletons,’ the song that chases it in order, is exceedingly dark and can slap the listener into a land of confusion.

Internet Slaps Volume 2 does just that, slaps. Hard. You absolutely don’t want to miss this one.

You can hear the full album in this 10 minute mini-mix:

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Or you can stream the songs individually and buy the album in high quality here:

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