{"id":946748,"date":"2026-10-26T09:24:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T09:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/946748\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T09:24:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T09:24:11","slug":"heavensouls-cantu-of-the-sower-ep-album-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/946748\/","title":{"rendered":"heavensouls: cantu of the sower EP Album Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the average piece of recorded music has gotten louder, wilder, and everything-er in the digital era, sound collages have blossomed. The 2020s have been full of young artists whose brains were rewired by E+E<\/a>, Chuquimamani-Condori<\/a>\u2019s early alias for sputtering patchworks of Latin electronica, and revel in semioblitz bliss. This music isn\u2019t about overload or unholy collisions for the sake of it; it\u2019s bound together by an autobiographical thread, where the disparate sounds intentionally express elements of their ideology and reveal something about the way they experience the world. They\u2019re channeling the private anxieties, joys, and memories of their communities\u2014be it Venezuelan teens<\/a> pining for a better future, alienated queer kids<\/a>, or young Black friends<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Among this generation\u2019s finest is a 20-year-old computer science and fashion design student named Chidi Obialo, or heavensouls<\/a>. He\u2019s in a duo with his buddy stickerbush called the Sidepeices. Their breakout project was last year\u2019s Darkskin Niggas With Lightskin Problems. Call it a virtuous data dump: It\u2019s hectic IDM (Intimate Discord Memories) by two sincere shitposters who\u2019ve been on the internet long enough to know exactly how to skewer it. One song, \u201cFuck a Stimulus I Need My Shit in Blood<\/a>,\u201d was themed around mocking a Hasan Piker stan. This year, heavensouls dropped westside trapped, a showcase of plundersymphonic finesse and a tribute to Nigerian beats. His new album-length EP, cantu of the sower, merges these musical tabs into a collage of collages. He\u2019s applying the dizzy logic of free jazz to shivery microsounds and making horn- and string-accompanied compositions for the conservatory freaks to dance to.<\/p>\n

No score yet, be the first to add.<\/p>\n

Obialo has lived a peripatetic life, from growing up in Nigeria, being unhoused at one point, to moving to the suburbs and becoming hyperliterate in niche genres via internet forums. The record sounds like he\u2019s expelling a lifetime\u2019s worth of moving between digital and physical rabbit holes. The nearly nine-minute \u201ctoday is my favorite\u201d is a monument to motion, heaving and sighing like a windstream carrying thousands of tiny pearls. There are rippling gasps, drums, strings, sax, a vaguely Latin guitar, a sample of a woman talking about getting her hair done. Obialo silences certain layers while modulating others, nestling rhythms like honeycombs. After maybe 10,000 individual motes of noise that chatter like mouse clicks, the song ends with a slow, jangly fadeout. These sounds are strange bedfellows, but the delirium rarely feels indulgent or trivial. It\u2019s optimized for wistful beauty, like a fried cousin of upsammy<\/a>\u2019s plinky pastoralism that wants to soothe and electrify at the same time. It feels like new emotional terrain\u2014a kind of serene garden watered into being atop a life thronged with stimuli.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the average piece of recorded music has gotten louder, wilder, and everything-er in the digital era, sound…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":946749,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[342,49,48,75,343],"class_list":["post-946748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-albums","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=946748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/946749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=946748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=946748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}