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A Real Good Kid
Pop · 2019 · 11 tracks

A Real Good Kid

Mike Posner

A raw, acoustic-leaning document of grief and ego death. Posner trades club beats for folk-pop intimacy to process his father's passing and the hollow nature of fame.

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It's a pop star's diary about losing his dad, and it's way more beautiful than you'd expect.

A heavy, unfiltered exploration of loss that finds beauty in the wreckage of grief.

A Real Good Kid · vs · Mike Posner
Mournful+4.0σ

Mournful saturates this record far more than the artist's norm.

Tracklist · 11 Tracks
01
January 11th, 2017
3:08
02
Wide Open
2:50
03
Song About You
3:10
04
Move On
2:58
05
Drip
5:26
06
Staring at the Fire
2:38
07
Perfect
6:24
08
Amen
0:31
09
Stuck in the Middle
3:21
10
One More Song
0:12
11
How It's Supposed to Be
5:26
Moments Worth Waiting For
The devastatingly literal opening track where Posner recounts the smell of perfume and joints after his father's passing.
The transition into the sprawling six-minute 'Perfect' which uses space and silence as much as melody.
The way 'Drip' builds from a rhythmic pulse into an intense, almost claustrophobic sonic release.
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