Catching Boutique Feelings in that intimate alley setting at FME was exactly what we needed, especially my friend on a wicked dose of LSD. Karim Lakhdar’s genre-bending project delivered everything—a mesmerizing blend of psychedelic hip-hop that felt both introspective and energizing, enough to bring back the dead.
My friends and I were in a pretty spaced-out headspace and completely captivated by the distortion-mangled hooks and offbeat storytelling. The socio-political messaging had this grounding effect that brought everyone in the crowd for one moment, jsut for Lakhdar to destroy it and create it again.
Karim Lakhdar is doing something wild with this project – like if Madlib and Kim Gordon had a baby and raised it on krautrock records. All of Atsuko Chiba is now in this project. Absolutely subliminally, sublime.
