"BeReal was a panopticon with a simple premise: reveal yourself, your true self, every day, for an audience. The caveat: a self is a sloppy thing, never as straightforward as taking a selfie. Strewn across the internet, quinn's selves were like orphaned troublemakers-NTS mixes under dj weird bitch, jungle experiments under cat mother, ambient dispatches under feeler, aggro throwaways under rifleman. Somewhere behind all these fragments, there was a real,"
"quinn and Dorian, 20 and 19 respectively, are sample-happy wunderkinds whose work probes, to varying degrees, the pressures and pleasures of getting older. In recent years, they've each ditched childhood homes for new apartments and become the faces of a burgeoning Atlanta rap movement. This new album is "fun," quinn promised. That thrill comes with a catch: When you aren't a kid anymore, fun is more complicated than it used to be."
quinn emerged from a BeReal-era life of fragmented online personae and multiple aliases into live performance expectations that required physical presence. The BeReal premise framed identity as both coherent and collapsing, with quinn's scattered releases appearing under many names. quinn (Quinn Dupree) and collaborator FearDorian are young, sample-driven producers who have left childhood homes, moved into new apartments, and become prominent faces of an Atlanta rap scene. Their joint album consolidates Dorian's hypnagogic, vaporwave-inflected textures with quinn's razor-edged, clipping-infused intensity to examine how growing up complicates the idea of "fun."
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