Form

Form

Structure.

By disregarding traditional hip-hop conventions, Room 25 plunges beyond the shallow ethos of radio music and curates an immersive listening experience. The well-oiled three-verse-three-chorus formula is an exercise in diving for shells sans sack—every reprise acts as a respite, a moment to breathe and deposit the findings from the stanza prior.  Noname lets you get lost in the water (and encourages you to bring a bag)—it isn’t until track three that any sort of repetition is introduced, and more than a third of the tunes on the record are entirely chorus-less. Thoughtful music isn't a round-trip and Room 25’s patternless-ness gives it distinct direction.

Form

The state of something.

If talent defines the ceiling for an athlete's career, then confidence is the set of precariously placed step-stools that allow a player’s hair to graze that upper bound. At top clubs, where fans care about patience like they care about the Carabao Cup, rebuilding after a nadir of self-assurance often involves relocation. United alone have seen off Depay, Mkhitaryan, Di Maria, and Falcao after short dry spells only to watch them succeed elsewhere. After watching a near slap-stick reel of Morata blunders in the Europa league, a one-way ticket elsewhere my be the only answer to his drought.