The Ground up vocalist floats back into the slipstream with a project themed around Love, heartbreak, lust and self-finding-influenced by study production from Yung d3mz and Ground up’s in house producers.
The Ten minutes projects comes with four songs, with Yung d3mz producing the first two songs, “Distance” is what Afrobeats is all about, groovy production that is speared with African drums and trademark sounds, with Twitch painting the production with his “assurance” lyricism about loving someone no matter the distance. However “Baby”, the stand out on the Ep, is peak 2017 Twitch, impressionistic songwriting, simple morsels of verse, catchy hooks, that’s all baby is about, with Yung D3mz on the wheel of production.
He channels the same energy and trademark into “Chaskele”, a song named after a local bat-and-ball game, which is mostly used by artistes in other terms of playing with a heart, the ground up vocalist croons on the mid-tempo production crafted by RAYF, who produced Kwesi Arthur’s “kill my spirit” 2019, with heart-broken writing skills, spilling his emotions all over the song and pleading not to be played. “Daada” is a pulsating reality check song meant to be listened to after surviving a finesse or refusing to be finessed, basically its Twitch refusing to be played or taken for granted, and on a Boye beat, Twitch flexes his muscles by being the one smiling on the love chain, tailoring the production with “dancy” vibes and direct verses.
Twitch still breathes that joy of discovery that makes him a compelling artist. He is at his best when he takes elements of afro-pop music from bumpy production and bounces them off his otherwise relaxing sound beds. We can just warm ourselves with what to expect from his debut album.