DA-P featuring RIVER TIBER, “First To Know”
I enjoy songs which infuse different styles which arrives at a well-crafted pop song. So Montreal producer DA-P has done just that with trippy, hippy and melodic songs on his EP Sapphire. One of those songs happens to feature River Tiber, who I gush about fairly often – sometimes a live performing Toronto band, but usually on record the talented multi-instrumentalist also known as Tommy Paxton-Beesley, who is not only Justin Nozuka’s right hand guitar player, but also contributor to the recent BADBADNOTGOOD album and creator of the basis for Drake’s “No Tellin'” (actually River Tiber’s recent single “No Talk”). So DA-P and River Tiber’s idiosyncratic styles mesh beautifully, with Tommy’s voice up front, to form a song that takes its time getting going with its hypnotic EDM hip hop mix but then could easily have gone on for another minute or so, it sounds that effortless. Well done to all, and more, please 🙂
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