Nyce turns beats into hard truths on “Scream”

Nyce delivers a stage-like experience on “Scream,” the Montreal artist further sharpens the knife she first showed us on Obsession and plunges it into rap-gore. “Scream” is a song, and it sounds both dark and deliberate, choices that befit the overtly courageous, then certainly unflinching boldness of its title, “Scream.” After all, it won’t whisper when there’s howling to be done.

“Scream” is an unassuming follow-up to her first album, "Larmes du crime (Tears of Crime)". Released with the highly anticipated slasher spoof Scream 7, which went full boogie down bloody, and unrepentant bunny trail. Although there’s room under all of the blood and gore for something meaningful, because horror is always most horrifying when it has a meaning, and so Nyce uses the genre as both arrow and mirror.

Based on the underground tastes of rap-gore. Her work is an exercise in headiness, razor-sharp rhyming resolve, and weighty subject matter that has listeners staring into some real weirdness. The chaos, however, is not simply for the sake of chaos, it is controlled mayhem, designed to stimulate thought as much as adrenaline.

The time-consuming process that was used to produce "Larmes du crime" is evident in the track “Scream.” Over several years, like a puzzle beginning to take shape in the right order, the track benefits from some amazing names in production and behind the decks, with artists including DJ Horg, Hotbox Productions, Shoddy, Ruffneck, and others. In addition to being her first office release, it also marks a significant milestone in her career. “Scream” is an announcement, here to let the listener in, here to shock, disturb, and then burrow its way into your memory long after the sound has faded.

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