{"product_id":"steven","title":"Steven","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Steven is the sound of me holding a mirror up to and critically reflecting on who I am:\r\nthe good, the bad, the ugly. It's about trying to understand the multitudes within me.\" -\r\nS. Raekwon\r\nSteven Raekwon Reynolds performs as S. Raekwon, but his second LP is simply called\r\nSteven. Across ten tracks of furious and subtly strumming guitars, plodding bass riffs,\r\nand whispering revelations, S. Raekwon's newest album strips back sonic and personal\r\nlayers to present his most vulnerable, yet authentic self.\r\nBorn in Buffalo and now based in the East Village of New York City, Steven wrote,\r\nproduced, engineered, and mixed everything on the record, in addition to playing every\r\ninstrument except the drums. He packed up a rental car with all his gear and returned to\r\nhis fiancée's parents' home in Southern Illinois, where they rode out the pandemic and\r\nwhere he recorded half of Where I'm at Now. The house proved to be a nontraditional\r\nrecording space, but one that provided plenty of physical space as well as spiritual room\r\nfor experimentation.\r\nSteven and drummer Mario Malachi, longtime friends since their days at college in\r\nCleveland, Ohio, spent a week in July 2023 transforming the living room into a\r\nmakeshift studio, rearranging furniture, sitting face-to-face in front of a mic, and taping\r\nsongs in single takes. It was a new way of working together, with no demoing or pre-production; Mario hadn't even heard the songs before getting there, which created a sense\r\nof spontaneity and improvisation.\r\nWhere his debut explored his past - longing for a connection to his father and the Black\r\nside of his family and wrestling with his identity while being raised in a household by a\r\nsingle, white mother - Steven looks inward. Steven is loosely structured in three parts:\r\nPart 1 is fast and energetic, exploring the concepts of rage, anger, jealousy. Part 2 is slow\r\nand dynamic, with themes of ugliness, disappointment, embarrassment. Part 3 is\r\nsomething gentler, a moment of contentment and clarity. Steven is a portrait of\r\nstrengths and weaknesses, flaws and fulfillments.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alliance Entertainment","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48761532088625,"sku":"792671668688","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0704\/2026\/7313\/files\/4305611-3123313.jpg?v=1712616842","url":"https:\/\/vinyl.com\/products\/steven","provider":"Vinyl.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}