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On Time

The musical duo of Toni Banx and Hanan Hassan is better known as Fifth House. We first heard their unique jams featured on Rell Be Free’s superb Sow What? earlier this year. Their own four-track debut EP, On Time, is warm and understated, harnessing the slow, anxious energy of our times. KEXP praises this short effort’s tender vocals that “uplift without ever hiding from the truth.” Debut single “Elevate” speaks to the “passive-oppressive” realities of being Black in 2020 Seattle, but it’s closer “Betta,” and its message of hope that we’ve kept on repeat all year. This EP is a delight and leaves us excited to hear whatever Fifth House drops next.

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Sow What?

In their annual year-end critics’ poll, The Seattle Times ranked Sow What? as one of the very best Seattle albums of 2020, saying:

The South Seattle rapper and co-founder of WA-BLOC — a youth development program centered around social justice — takes a sizable leap forward on his third full-length. His most polished and cohesive project to date has a lucid-dream quality, with Rell’s poised, unhurried flows suspended over slo-mo space-funk productions.

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