'Depeche Soul' by Cardboard People: Horny AF

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Michael Bang of Tell Me Tell Me

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Ready to get hot and heavy? Because I feel like another title for this EP could have been “Smash Time.” It’s sweaty, it’s erotic, it’s oozing sex and it doesn’t hide behind metaphors. Here’s an example: “Open up my body let you satisfy me sexually.” I mean come on! That’s from “Look at What You’ve Done to Me,” a cosmic trip to a warehouse party orbiting Saturn. Cardboard People want to feel good and they want you to feel good too, so get ready!

Opening track “Devour” invites you to get lost in ecstasy, while also asking the question what planet are we on? This is R&B from the future, this is sultry cyborg music, this is a club scene from Ready Player One. If the goal of Interstellar was finding a new planet for smashing instead of living, this would be the soundtrack.

“Bend It Ova” makes things even more clear. This is actual blood-sugar-sex-magic, this is a celebration of bodies and how good they can make each other feel. “Lovecraft (Mind Games)” is the party at the end of “Return of the Jedi” but zoomed in on all the babies that were being made. And if all that weren’t enough, final track “Push Up” tempts us to skip the Netflix and get right to the chill. Personal favorite lines are “get with the times got this ass in cyberspace” and “I ride the cocky good.” Love it.

Cardboard People is the alt-pop-r&b project of vocalist Yunoka Berry and producer Jim Greer. Their music ranges from deeply cerebral to extraordinarily funky, somewhere between hip hop and avant-garde pop music, landing on a genre planet orbiting alt-indie-soul-artpop. Influences can be heard from Prince, Stevie Wonder, Tyler the Creator, Kate Bush, and Hieroglyphics. For this EP I humbly submit the genre name: Rhythm & Butts. Pairs well with Enon, LOUIZA, Melissa Jones, and Extra! Extra! It’s awesome.
​5/5 moans 🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵