Malice K "Avanti" COLOR:Black was crowned one of the

was crowned one of the top 40 albums that year by Decibel magazine

The production style was very different from that of his previous album Odelay

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Malice K "Avanti" COLOR:Black was crowned one of theThere are ghosts all across AVANTI, the debut album from Malice K. At points it's howling and unhinged, a grungy layer atop a lush foundation of melodic capital s Songwriting, but in other moments it dissolves into a gentle, wistful haunting. Malice K's songs are blunt, uncomplicated and unflinching as he probes the interiority of memories, of mistakes saturated with an innate intensity that sucks you into his gnarled and visceral world, so barbed it