Album Review: RAC Shows An “Ego” Can Be Fun
RAC’s Ego is far from arrogant. Instead, it is a boisterous celebration of how much life humbles us, even when humility is the LAST thing we want. Of course, you always need to be humble because, in many ways, humility is the personal openness to happiness from everyone and anywhere. The problem is, as seen in RAC’s Ego, we want what we want, and when life, especially in romance, does not bend to our whims we get an Ego.
RAC has a career that has remixed for the “hottest” of music such as, Lana Del Rey, Imagine Dragons, and Phoenix. Hence, it is no wonder that he gained even more stars like Rivers Cuomo and St. Lucia to join him in his vibrantly electric sound-off on how and why life is not always a battle of winning as much as losing. My ego is something I definitely want to lose, and in “Nobody (feat. Chaos Chaos)”, “Fever (feat. KNA)”, and “It’s A Shame (feat. Pink Feathers), I can see why. When we are told to change by someone or soothing beyond our own epiphany, we can rebel and assume that we are being misunderstood, which makes us tether more to our ways. The battle between life’s call for perseverance and your pride can be cataclysmic, and lead you to learning the same lessons from the same kind of relationships and situations. RAC has bubbly mixes that pop and gurgle with synths that seem too sweet compared to itheir very real, lyrical confrontations. Yet, the Portuguese DJ/ pianist does take time to add instrumentals that make him appear like a one-man orchestra lapsing and spreading cinematic sound as in “Heavy (feat Karl Kling” and “End”. It is befitting that these tracks are the end of the album because other songs such as “”Unusual (Feat. MDNR)” and “The Beautiful Game (feat St. Lucia)” feels like the beach-pop roads you take to deeper self-reflections. Their arrangements are bright paths for darker undertones that begin to culminate in more lavishly placed chords such as, “Heartbreak Summer (feat. K.Flay)”. All to reach an “End” that shows, you do not have to live in your Ego to learn from it.
Every song in RAC’s “Ego” is a radio-friendly hit that can offer sincere displays on the bad decisions we make in the name of “instant gratification” or temporary fun. While we all need those moments where we give into the present and have a good time, we also need moments where we do look into our past and future to decide if how we have been living truly makes us feel alive. For More Information on RAC and to buy EGO on July 14 Click Here.
