Dublin, Ireland beatsmith Pitch 92 from The Mouse Outfit fully producing London, England, United Kingdom emcee Verb T’s 8th solo LP. A member of The 4 Owls, he would also make his debut in mid-late 2000s off Bring It Back to Basics as well as Broken Window & Verbs with a Vengeance. These would be followed by Serious Games, which later resulted in T making his High Focus Recordsdebut with Morning Process & I Remain. Coming off The Man with the Foggy Eyes produced by Illinformed, I felt it would be exciting to hear Pitch 92 fully produce Good Evening.
“Arrived Late” begins with an organ & some kicks & snares talking about finding to the worst to define your world whereas “Getaway Car” swaps out the organ in favor of a vibraphone confessing things get eerier the more his squad travels. “Mechanical” continues the jazzy boom bap vibes talking about the understandability of living mechanically while “Possession” featuring King Kashmere speaks of this being the type of shit that sinks in slowly.
Ocean Wisdom joins T during “Lie Low” sampling “Parle Plus Blas” by Dalida sending a message to those living in fear leading into the atmospherically dusty “That Sound” talks about feeling some kind of magic in the air. “Mates Rates” featuring Black Josh, Moreone & Rye Shabby finds the quartet comparing their lyrics to gold just before the crooning “When Not To” featuring BVA & Fliptrix superiorly laughs off those snitching on themselves.
“Games” combines boom bap & funk talking about how hard it is to stay sane with everything going on in this world presently while “Sends Me Away” featuring Sparkz jazzily talks about looking for tomorrow only for it to eventually come. “Everything That You Love” turns the funkiness back up suggesting a whole tightly to everything you love me & dear to your heart while “Sugar” playfully talks about him trying to stay the same since everyone’s sweet until they begin to decay.
DRS appears on “They Say”, kicking off Good Evening’s final quarter funkily remembering the late Salford John while “Many Miles” stand happily looking back at all the things he’s done in his career. The title track featuring Confucius MC & Jehst brings the trio together advising to stay seeing what they’ve been seeing while “Break Limits” wraps it all up with a motivational outro encouraging the world not to slip & pick themselves back up.
Stretching back to the days of when Low Life Records was in it’s prime & now envisioning himself as a major part of the ever expanding High Focus Records movement, Verb T uses an outstandingly fresh batch of jazzy & funky boom bap production Pitch 92 has become known for since The Mouse Outfit was around engineered by Telemachus to pen some of the most personal songwriting of his entire career & my favorite guest appearances personally being the ones coming out of the High Focus alumni.
Score: 3.5/5
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