London, UK based recording artist/producer CARPETFACE recently dropped his new FRIENDS IN HIGH PLACES Vol​.​1: THE CABIN FEVER EP, produced/Cuts by France’s DJAR ONE

‘The Cabin Fever’ EP is the long-awaited first instalment of award-winning London rapper/producer/songwriter CARPETFACE’s eclectic new EP series ‘Friends In High Places’ produced in collaboration once again with French beatsmith extraordinaire DJAR ONE (Beats House Records) A brutally honest 7-track depiction of a single dad’s struggle to keep it together under 2020 lockdown, stuck in an isolated cabin missing fun and funerals as the world outside goes nuts.

DJAR ONE’s jazz-heavy, head-nod boom-bap production sets a smoky scene for CARPETFACE’s unrelenting, often disturbing, yet highly relatable maze of mood-swings. Despite the painful subject-matter, the EP brims with tongue-twisting lyrical dexterity, filthy fun-poking, and pure Hip Hop guts. The end result is a deceptively enjoyable experience that misdirects the listener to a place of anguish and back, with an underlying theme of perseverance in the face of adversity throughout.

This record is a testament to the cathartic value of Hip Hop expression, alternating between aggressive rants of sneering disgust at world-affairs and cries for help and forgiveness, literally climbing the walls in one man’s lonely quest for self-redemption. Following Nina Simone’s mantra

“An artist’s duty is to refect the times”,

while
deeply personal on one hand, ‘The Cabin Fever’ EP is also a call to spiritual arms in the global battle against racism, corruption and police/state brutality, at one of the most divisive and alarming periods in human history. Lead singles from the EP include the not-so-festive sleighbell infused ‘Done & Dusted’ (F*ck 2020), ‘Secret Formula’, a dark, brooding track about facing demons with one bad trip of a music video dropping 04th Jan 2021, and the heavily shadow-banned ‘Def Definition‘ (No One Can Breathe) which was released July 2020 to critical acclaim and support from independent press and radio, with online video promotion then sadly censored due to depictions of police brutality, despite being a fundraiser for #StopHateUK and condemning unlawful violence.

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