Emphasis: Forward.Reverse
Beats, beats, beats, are what we all need and with Milwaukee–based Emphasis' new album
Forward.Reverse there is definitely no shortage. "Play, listen, and repeat"
— the motto of this one man band who sometimes sounds like your parents old make–out
music — which isn’t too far off, as he's told me that a lot of his samples are from the
basements of his friends’ parents — that and second-hand stores; wherever he may find them.
The album’s opening track “Your House” sounds like drifting in and out of an episode
of
Cops all while floating on a set of Da Vinci wings in your sleep. “Pleasant Day Jazz”
hints at remnants of Polkadots and Moonbeams while spilling into the next track “Movement” —
we know this cat digs jazz. The album moves with out–takes from movies and T.V. and leaves the
listener wondering if this the invention of a mad man reaching for something new under his rock in Milwaukee.
