The producer, William J. Sullivan, returns with another big and brassy offering in an apparently continuing series of collaborations. This time, he serves up “House of Leaves,” a shadowy, multiplaned hip-hop experiment with the New York duo SharpKnel, comprising PremRock and Curly Castro. It's the haunting guitar notes at the beginning, and it's then followed by the basslines and paced rhythms that make its soundscape feel distinctly alive. It sprouts like the odd house that inspired it. Each verse gazes at how things can break and how frail they are, turning heavy lyrics into the sort of action that seems it could have been lifted from a movie.
The film adaptation “House of Leaves” is an adaptation of Mark Z. Danielewski’s cult novel, also titled “House of Leaves.” The movie honours the book's strange, anachronistic plot. Sullivan describes his tracks as a labyrinth of dark, unpredictable, and constantly shifting thoughts and emotions. The three of them complement each other and layer the sound in, so everyone occupies his space.” It is a metaphor for the confusion of today, an image of a world in which information, freedom and truth have grown so fast that they are threatening to not just zap apart but actually melt down.
Sullivan’s remarks suggest that he has a more fundamental creative philosophy, derived from hybridising genres and not treating designs as mere appearances but as properties. He blends elements of metal, classical, jazz, and hip-hop to create a diverse range of music that is challenging to categorise. He unexpectedly collaborated with PremRock and Curly Castro, and it seems destined that their three voices would unite due to their shared artistic vision and urgency. It’s the chemistry between the two actors that gives “House of Leaves” its gravity, transforming existential dread into rhythmic motion.
This single demonstrates Sullivan's status as one of the most innovative producers of his generation. House of Leaves is smart and emotionally affecting. It's a wonderful mashup of sound, story, and message. It is seductive, and people get trapped in it.