DIV1NE distorts and warps reality with hard-hitting statement of intent, ‘BL4CKOUT’!
The emerging indie rap artist from the UK blends raw, gripping emotion of rap with disorienting, thumping electronic textures of underground techno to deliver something straight of a nightmarish scene!
‘BL4CKOUT’ opens onto blaring, alarming spunds and effects and his anguished cries. Its unsettling, disturbing and has your attention immediately. Lauching into his tirade, DIV1NE expresses an unbridled rage and broken-hearted indifference. At least his life is now on his own terms, despite the fact that he’s alone, miserable and has no one to talk to. There’s anger, sadness, resentment and grief, all rolled into one intoxicating hit!
The disorienting, dissonant electronic tones continue to bleed through relentlessly to programmed drums and basslines. There’s just so much chaos and a sense of total emotional upheaval expressed through the arrangements. At one point, he openly threatens self-harm and hurt towards everyone and everything in his life. The one relief from all this pain and suffering seems to be to ‘BL4CKOUT’. To numb oneself to infinity, till no other emotion or sensation can be felt.
For listeners with sensitive hearts and spirits, this is definitely not for you! To say that this composition is dark, brooding, gritty, and disturbing would be putting it lightly. From start to finish, the track wraps its coils around you tight, without any minute respite. It’s the kind of track that you walk away from with a sense of relief for the sheer trauma it forces upon you.
DIV1NE makes a stunning, albeit upsetting, impression with his raw, emotional outburst, built upon a bad-ass, intoxicated persona. If you’ve ever been left hurt and betrayed to the point where you wanted to numb out the entire world so that you could feel nothing, this will resonate sharply.
