Ryan Hemsworth – Kitsch Genius EP

Halifax based beat bashing button wizard Ryan Hemsworth is at it again with his Kitsch Genius EP.

Released yesterday via a "Pay What You Can" Bandcamp outlet, Hemsworth's new EP takes all sorts of flavour of the moment hip-hop trends and flips them on their head and kicks them to outerspace. On the album's opener "Gucci Anthem" Hemsworth pairs up the down south 808 snare waterfalls with some 90's rave pianos, while the EP's closer "Outside Dublin" gives the trap sound a introspective and melancholic take before turning up a pulsating bassline that gives the track a kind of feel good hands in the air type quality which then drops into a juke inspired reprise of the track that closes it out.

Records like "Sulk" and "Faith In Something" draw out varying emotions in the listener but in both of them, as in most of Hemsworth's work, there is a consistent sense that all of these songs have been designed and inspired by many a late night house party session with their warm and harmonious endings and liberal use of familiar and welcoming samples. You just as liable to bump and grind out some Jersey Turnpikes to these tracks as you are to chill on a couch and get faded.

As a bonus, Toronto based producer Exeter lends his production skills to a remix of "Gucci Anthem". Turning up the bit crusher on the bass and giving the percussion a bit more of a rolling, house inspired vibe, Exeter has crafted a track that has enough soul and low end that you'll be grooving and snarling all over the floor to.