Albums of The Year: Sir Sly’s Don’t You Worry, Honey Puts Egos To Rest

I think I speak for everyone when I say, “Screw YOU EGO!” Every human being has an ego and spirit coursing within them, of which their life seems to be a path to a final decision; which side are you going to be? Written in the aftermath of Landon Jacobs’s divorce and his mother’s death, Don’t You Worry, Honey, transforms heavy-heartedness into unlikely joy, and confronts the ego as a blocker of happiness.
Sir Sly – High

Nothing like divorce and death to make you face up to who you are: for better or worse. In loss there is gain, the problem is that, usually, we have to lose someone else to gain from ourself. It is a painful truth as, if you ask most people, they fear losing a loved one more than losing their self. As individuals, we often tie our humanity to our relationships, which makes sense as there is where it is displayed. You appear like Love because you are loving to someone, and you appear like Hate because you are hateful. SIMPLE! Thus, tracks like, “Oh Mama”, “Run”, “Altar”, and “Change” have Jacob’s singing to loss as a hurtful but needed and inevitable teacher. Jacob’s has a voice that attract like honey to bees; you flock to its golden sweetness as it goes over tracks that seem made for queens. How Kanye West has not called Jacob for a sample to his tracks is BEYOND me. From “High” to “Trippin”, there is a futurism to Sir Sly’s arrangement that makes you feel as if each beat was made in a mechanic heart. Funny how in the future everything, including humans, is presented as so machine-like, which is, exactly what Sir Sly wish to avoid.
Sir Sly – Altar

The hardest part about healing is that you have to feel, and when you are in pain that is THE LAST thing you want to do. Nobody goes around saying, “Oh, I just loooove to feel hurt!” or “My God! It is so wonderful to be so strong and brave all the time!”. Yet, that is the point, you have to feel pain to get through it. This essence makes Sir Sly’s Don’t You Worry, Honey one of the best albums of the year. It is sonically distant and delicious while simultaneously being spiritually poignant. You can dance and dream to this album, but, most importantly, you can relate to it. For More Information Sir Sly Click Here.
Sir Sly – &Run