His phrasing is loosey-goosey, his vocal tone audacious, his ideas coming from odd angles. But it benefited his work: by evolving in obscurity, like a bug on a desert island, Makonnen arrived at a form that was truly original and wholly his own. How he was overlooked for so long, in a world of countless music-covering media properties, we'll never know. Eyes and ears were available to anyone with an engaging identity and a signature sound-or in some cases just a signature line, primed for Vine.īy the time that iLoveMakonnen broke through, early this summer, he'd self-released ten full projects and dozens of music videos to virtually zero acclaim. Little indies became big things when they captured the feeling of homegrown communities. Major labels did their best work by reissuing and amplifying self-released tracks. Across genres, it became the year of DIY. What 2014 lacked in universally beloved albums, it more than made up in breakthrough artists.
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