Another Vietnamese artist gets surprisingly high scores from world music site

After Snake Tail and Hoang Thuy Linh, 2pillz is the third artist to have their new album scored by the world's leading music site Pitchfork.

Accordingly, 2pillz's album PILLZCASSO received a score of 7.1 from Joshua Minsoo Kim - a critic of many Asian music products of Pitchfork.

PILLZCASSO is considered "the strongest musical statement of V-pop this year"

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In the article on the morning of August 5, Kim gave many compliments to this album, highly appreciated the Vietnamese quality that 2pillz put into each song and affectionately called this "the strongest musical statement of V-pop this year".

This person said that PILLZCASSO is an album that brings a feeling of "both confidence and lightness through dance pop songs that gather many Vietnamese artists in a vibrant party hour with a standard blue ocean vibe, including the moments of falling mood afterwards. Although it has a relaxing and restrained tone, this is still the strongest musical statement of Vpop this year".

Critics are interested in the way 2pillz combines pop music and V inahouse - a genre with a strong Vietnamese flavor in the product Once You Say Love, Everything Will End or restructures bolero music by using samples from famous singer Phuong Dung's song to create Fallen Leaves Bring Love To .

The sounds that 2pillz uses such as traditional instruments, specifically the t'rung in Dua Em Vao Trong, the lithophone in Thac Nung , the Vietnamese tones resounding through the flute in Nguoi Dep Oiii, Chi Mot Cau Than Chua, Nghi Mot Ti all make Pitchfork experts excited.

The review concludes with a comment on 2pillz's musical identity: "Above all, what makes PILLZCASSO unique is the emotional interplay between the resilience and bounce of vinahouse and the profound lyricism of Vietnamese ballads. No current V-pop album shows a generational shift as clearly and confidently as PILLZCASSO ."

Sharing more about the album, 2pillz said: "The album name was inspired by Pablo Picasso, a rebellious and limitless art icon. Similarly, 2pillz (or PILLZCASSO ) wants to use music to paint personal colors - both chaotic and full of depth. Conflicting emotions, breakdown, beauty in distortion,... are all materials for this album. 2pillz also wants to make a music album with "bouncing, pretty, emotional" melodies, giving listeners mixed emotions".

In this new album, 2pillz boldly experimented with many musical genres from House, Afrobeat, Drum & Bass, Bossanova to Bolero or using Vietnamese folk materials (dan da, zither,...). All of this creates a musical concept called "vinafro" - a fusion of Vietnamese cultural identity with the vibrant beats of global club music.

2pillz shares album name inspired by Pablo Picasso - rebellious and limitless art icon

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2pillz said: "I've always liked afrobeat music and its 'variations' that I 'made up' names for myself such as: boleafro (bolero + afro), ballad (ballad + afro),... and when combined with Vietnamese sounds, it will give rise to Vinafro . Besides the famous Vinahouse, I hope vinafro will also become something that helps Vietnamese music have special and interesting features."

After its release, the album PILLZCASSO reached Top 1 on the most listened albums chart of iTunes Vietnam and iTunes Germany, and held Top 3 on iTunes Canada. On YouTube, the Full Performance Video, which is over 53 minutes long, also received more than 337 thousand views - a remarkable achievement for a music producer like 2pillz.

The score of 7.1 that Pitchfork gave to the album PILLZCASSO is equivalent to the score given to Jennie's album Ruby , which is in the Top albums from Asia evaluated by this music site.

Source: https://thanhnien.vn/them-nghe-si-viet-duoc-chuyen-trang-am-nhac-the-gioi-cham-diem-cao-bat-ngo-185250806163043449.htm