some bandwork

In the process of completely redoing the lorn website and blog, probably going to transfer this blog over to another one that's viewable locally on the Lorn website.

My finances are finally starting to get a little more "stable" and you can definitely expect some shirts in the foreseeable future...new art getting finished as well...been really pushing myself in terms of will-power and overall quality so I'm pretty excited for what the next few years has for lorn.....

Found some throwbackz

Been doing a lot of new shit lately and am hoping to get most of it on here. I should have a new Lorn website by this summer.

Unfortunately for the past few months I haven't been as active as I've wanted to have been but I didn't have access to my computer or internet at the time so I felt it better to focus on other areas of my life first.

It feels weird finally being able to get artwork posted back up here...in a good way though it's been way too long and I'm only getting started!

Should also have some shirts in production as well so don't sleep on this one ;).

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Drake - Take Care

Hip-hop has never produced anything quite like Drake – a guy with a Jay-Z ego and a Charlie Brown soul. The Canadian singer-rapper introduced his melancholy-player persona on 2010's platinum Thank Me Later, spooling out alarmingly mellow confessional brags over synth-streaked tracks that suggested someone had spiked his Cristal with NyQuil and truth serum. "Famous like a drug that I've taken too much of," he rapped, and somehow made you sympathetic to all his stardom-is-hard meditations.

So, how's he feeling these days? The cover of Take Care says it all: Drake sits forlornly in the depths of a mansion he could've bought from 1970s Jimmy Page, slung over a golden goblet of $50-a-glass painkiller. Dude probably had sex two minutes ago, but he looks like his dog just got run over by a garbage truck.

The music is grandiose, full of big names and weighty references – from the drunk-dial epic "Marvin’s Room" to the N'awlins hip-hop tribute "Practice" to cameos from André 3000, Nicki Minaj, Lil Wayne and Stevie Wonder. Where Thank Me Later was airy and spare, Take Care truly goes for it with luxe, expansive production: On "Cameras," beatmaking prodigy Lex Luger provides diamond-bright high-hat clicks, low-end vroom and soulful background vocals as Drake struggles to convince his girl he's not cheating on her after she sees him in a magazine with another woman; on "Lord Knows," Just Blaze laces a shake-the-sky mix of gospel choir, gauzy R&B sample and stomping beat, and Rick Ross swoops in for a hilarious freestyle: "Villa on the water with the wonderful views/Only fat nigga in the sauna with Jews." There's even a funky thank-you letter to Drake's mom.

It's what Drake does best, collapsing many moods – arrogance, sadness, tenderness and self-pity – into one vast, squish-souled emotion. On the elegant title track, Jamie Smith of U.K. band the xx lays down house-music pianos, ice sheets of guitar and a sample from recently deceased R&B radical Gil Scott-Heron as Drake and Rihanna do their laid-back, realist appraisal of the love game.

"We live in a generation of not being in love," he says over Stevie Wonder’s harmonica on "Doing It Wrong." It's as close as Take Care gets to a message for our times. But deep down you wonder if he'd have it any other way. After all, in a fully requited world, who'd need Drake?

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