{"id":18660,"date":"2019-11-20T09:00:57","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T17:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=18660"},"modified":"2019-11-18T10:18:59","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T18:18:59","slug":"new-music-revue-mavis-charisma-shines-on-new-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2019\/11\/20\/new-music-revue-mavis-charisma-shines-on-new-album\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>New Music Revue<\/em>: MAVI&#8217;s charisma shines on new album"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/letthesuntalk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-18661\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/letthesuntalk-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/letthesuntalk-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/letthesuntalk-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/letthesuntalk.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>MAVI<br \/>\n<i>Let the Sun Talk<br \/>\n<\/i>(Independent)<br \/>\n4\/5<\/p>\n<p>While some artists benefit from high-budget production, Charlotte, North Carolina rapper MAVI thrives on skeletal, sample-heavy beats that allow his non-linear flow and sharp lyricism to shine through. When he\u2019s not studying neuroscience at Howard University, MAVI constructs insightful songs detailing stories of human experience and understanding his identity as a Black artist.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Earl-Sweatshirt-produced track \u201cSense\u201d sees MAVI discuss procrastinating on doing his school work and praising his own writing abilities. \u201cSense\u201d is the album\u2019s most confident-sounding track and showcases MAVI\u2019s youthful charm. \u201cGhost (In the Shell)\u201d is by far the record\u2019s most hard-hitting song, as MAVI speaks bluntly about family trauma and health struggles.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Choruses are almost non-existent on this album, and samples are an essential piece to each song.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>MAVI has a charming charisma alongside punchy off-kilter flows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MAVI Let the Sun Talk (Independent) 4\/5 While some artists benefit from high-budget production, Charlotte, North Carolina rapper MAVI thrives on skeletal, sample-heavy beats that allow his non-linear flow and sharp lyricism to shine through. When he\u2019s not studying neuroscience at Howard University, MAVI constructs insightful songs detailing stories of human experience and understanding his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,244],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-november-20-2019"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18662,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18660\/revisions\/18662"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}