Stereogum Album of the Week: R.A.P. Ferreira loves the taste of words in his mouth on 'Purple Moonlight Pages'

"One of the richer, more abstract, more discursive rap albums in recent memory" - Stereogum says about their newest choice for Album of the week, R.A.P. Ferreira's debut under his real name (Rory Allen Philip), co-produced by The Jefferson Park Boys. The beats are slightly leftfield - full of live instrumentation with murmuring bass, idle guitar flutters, occasional bursts of horn, and jazz as an obvious inspiration. His raps are more "slam poetry than straight-up rap. The songs unfurl on their own schedule. They’re never too long, but you’re also never quite sure which direction they’ll twist in next". In lyrics, R.A.P. is interested in playing games with language, like - “preaching the rhyming word is absurd as pledging allegiance before reading terms of service agreement”. So, an unusual album, but not too much.