So many kids are trying to be Dean Blunt. On “til life do us part,” plinks is up front about it. The track’s Russian nesting doll of an instrumental is a rip from Blunt’s “PILLADELPH HALFLIFE,” which references an album by The Roots and samples Meek Mill’s “Dreams and Nightmares.” Plinks murmurs over pitched-down melodramatic piano, an art-damaged take on ballad-centric Older Brother Core bands like Keane and Hoobastank. The major label rap origins are adrift—it sounds more akin to something off of a soundtrack to a 2000s television drama. The delivery, albeit unintelligible, is dewy-eyed, like the inversion of a wedding vow. Much of Dean Blunt’s appeal lies in artful sampling, so why not live out a dream scenario where every compilation beat could be a finished product?
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