0000.Infinity

"Having started out as a smiley YouTuber, Marius Listhrop's decision to rebrand to screaming emo rapper Scarlxrd in 2017 was quite the career change. The 24-year-old Wolverhampton lad has claimed his previous work as a YouTube star was "soul-destroying", and that music now provides an outlet for his raw emotions. But second studio album 'Infinity' suggests there isn't much more to Scarlxrd than the most basic kind of teenage angst ... If Scarlxrd is to truly shake off the idea that this is all just a smart new way of getting trending on YouTube, he's going to have to work a lot harder as a songwriter".

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"Despite time fronting rap-rock outfit Myth City, undoubtedly a key point in his transition from jovial social media star to relentlessly dark trap MC, it is perhaps possible to overstate the metal content of Scarlxrd's work. For example, on Infinity, only "I Can Dx What I Want" features heavy guitars, and even on this track they're way down in the mix. But through atmosphere and lyrical intensity, it's still clear that this is music as influenced by the nihilism of Slipknot as the misanthropy of Eminem: "All Hxpe Is Gxne', anyone?".

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