Andrew Veeder on January 6th, 2015

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Los Angeles’ Wes Period has been kicking around for a couple of years now, putting out the “Friendly Fire” EP in 2011 and sporadic tracks since, but recently, he’s released his best work yet. “Highs & Lows” is a witty song produced by Lovelife about life’s highs and lows, with a chorus about smoking so much weed you can’t move, which is as we know is effectively getting so high you’re low, and drops the great reference, “Baby, I’m Oliver Twist / Baby, I’m Charles Dickens / Either way, this is my story, brah / I turned the world to my b*tch / Right now Topanga my chick / This is not Cory, brah / Let the boy meet the world, but you’re mad when the boy meets your girl / Hate when the drama occur, but these girls don’t belong to you, sir.” On the flip side, the Colin Baylen-produced track “Touch It” asks the question we’ve all been wondering, “Where all the super freaky girls at?” over a grooving bassline accented with funky guitar, hand claps, horn blasts, shakers, and a western showdown bridge, complete with “I challenge you to a duel” whistles, boasting, “They ain’t heard it like this before / On that grunge rap tip, word to Jez Dior / She gon’ pick it up, drop it to the floor / Got an ass like a donkey, that’s a dare, Eeyore.” His next project is due later this year.

||| Stream: “Highs & Lows” and “Touch It”