Nowhere is that more obvious than on standout track “Guillotine.” The beat sounds like Bourne looped a creaking screen door a warped sample breathes with the beat, groaning ruefully every four bars.
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Which is a shame, because Bourne puts effort into his lyrics. Add this to the fact that none of the songs evolve much over their runtimes -put Pi’erre 4 in waveform, and it’d look like a bread loaf, a hunk of sound with no peaks or valleys-and you start to tune out. His voice often drowns in the mix as a result. Unlike the MCs who buy his beats, none of which are featured here, he fully saturates his voice in Auto-Tune, more akin to T-Pain or Fetty Wap than Uzi. Once you get past the initial dopamine rush, Bourne starts to run into trouble.
Most of the tracks are accentuated by over-the-top sound effects-a lion roar, or a reworked vintage DJ drop (“ Damn Pi’erre, where’d you find this?”)-that give the project the momentum of a street-bought mixtape. The fuzzy synth notes on “Be Mine” sound like they were played on an electrified toy piano, while “Romeo Must Die” turns on a distorted refrain that sounds recorded 500 feet below the ocean surface. Bourne’s beats hum with the same off-kilter melodies that made “Magnolia” so thrilling, and the edges are filled with interesting noises. The answer is not quite-his heavily Auto-Tuned vocals have a tendency to get washed out by his hazy backdrops, and Pi’erre 4 is one-note as a result, more vibe than statement.Īt least the vibe is enticing. Which brings us to The Life of Pi’erre 4, his major-label debut and the first real test of whether he can carry a project. Rather than continue to feed hits to stars like Carti, Lil Uzi Vert and 21 Savage, Bourne has put all his attention into his solo career as a rapper.
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