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TRACKLIST:
    
     01 A Gradual Decline In Morale
     02 My Confession
     03 The Pledge:
     04 Luck Is A Fine Thing (Give It A Chance)
     05 Drown
     06 Superhero
     07 Are You?
     08 Land Of The Sun
     09 The Turn:
     10 Divine Retribution
     11 Undercover
     12 Industry Secrets
     13 Rosé
     14 Seventy Thorns
     15 The Prestige:
     16 Reunion And Reintegration
     17 Kitty Kitty
     18 Make Me Famous
     19 Iris
     20 The End, For Now
    
    

Have you ever fallen asleep with a playlist on and awoken in a haze of confusion and disorientation? Imagine that feeling took physical form and blew the absolute fuck up on social media, worked its ass off for two years to create multiple singles and videos whilst masterfully combining a plethora of genres and like a musical Dr Frankenstein, created a 20 track debut album that is completely unlike anything you’ve ever heard.

Yeah, that’s what it’s like listening to Kim Dracula’s A Gradual Decline In Morale. It’s like someone squeezed lemon juice on your brain while you discover a stack of cash. It’s confusing, it’s enjoyable, it’s ridiculous.

The enigma that is Kim Dracula is only made more mysterious with the album opening to a chorus of organ pipes and blood curdling screams with the mostly instrumental title track/intro, A Gradual Decline In Morale. It closes in manic laughter that carries to the next track, Confession, that hits with a funky slap bass intro paired with pick slides before some pumped up, aggressive rapping from Dracula. Then… we’re clubbing? The EDM beats and clean vocals change the tempo before the chorus switches it up again, hitting with a more hardcore sound, showing how versatile their vocal work and musical talents are.

After a little pep-talk to themselves, Kim shows the ridiculous hair-trigger, raspy rapping they are know for, spitting a verse with ease, sparing no bars. This track shows there’s no genre safe from this perfect disasterpiece of an album.

Kim Dracula may have amassed their following during the outbreak of Covid-19, but the process of piecing together and polishing their art into a fever dream of satire and dramatic chaos is a decade in the making. Not only is it entertaining, the superfluity of style influences are rampant as the album continues.