Hailed as "among the rawest pieces of music--sonically and emotionally--you'll hear all year" by NPR Music, The Last Days of Oakland blends hip-hop, rock, and other styles into a contemporary blues-spined concoction that Pitchfork beams, "he could be inventing the blues for the first time." Timely and prophetic in its subject matter, Xavier sparks "a conversation about gentrification and the economic disparities apparent not only in the Bay Area but around the world" (San Francisco Chronicle) whose "passion is undeniable" (NPR).
Hailed as "among the rawest pieces of music--sonically and emotionally--you'll hear all year" by NPR Music, The Last Days of Oakland blends hip-hop, rock, and other styles into a contemporary blues-spined concoction that Pitchfork beams, "he could be inventing the blues for the first time." Timely and prophetic in its subject matter, Xavier sparks "a conversation about gentrification and the economic disparities apparent not only in the Bay Area but around the world" (San Francisco Chronicle) whose "passion is undeniable" (NPR).
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