They don't necessarily like or intend to, but nevertheless still confuse you with their writings. Them being the Hand Held Aspects crew, that then is shortened to H2A, as well as one of their members Losaka, who also spells his name 105aka. But the one is the other and the other is what we shall be talking about here.

Losaka steps out of the comfort of the pack to do a solo release, if we're neglecting the fact for a minute, that on five of the eleven tracks he gets help from Hippo on the beats. The rest however is but Losaka, what doesn't need to restrain your interest, because on the H2A "No One's Listening" album, Losaka was one of the most prominent members. What let's us believe in him being able to hold his own over the length of one release. And with the H2A album being of the last century, we are really interested to hear what one of their own is doing in this millennium.

As Losaka is as much a producer as he's an emcee, it shouldn't surprise us that two tracks on this album are kept instrumental. There's for one the opening "Duck", that builds around ghostly sound effects, that at the end of the album are all reduced to one big heap of rubble. The Hippo produced "Blue Eyes" is manipulating some chorus singing, giving it a screaming effect, with the total however mainly being a skillfully put together should be interlude. But even when there are words, then the beats are taking much and deserving every bit of our attention. And so the strings enhanced "Selfsale" or the three pieced, and later described "Epithalamium" are amongst the nicest tracks, offering proof for the updated sounds of the H2A Crew.

Listening to the tracks where Losaka talks, there's "Darkroom", where he discusses parts of his limits, as well as his nocturnal existence, without this meant to imply that he's an owl. But there's a comfort for him in a 'darkroom', also because "overexposure is bad for my heart". At the end of the track it's however still unclear, if he's hiding at all, hiding from others or from himself in the dark. Lyrically this album very much is used to find an output for Losaka's explorations and findings. As he's putting an analytical needle into what makes him, putting the measured data into the words he says. Hence that's what we get on cuts like "Fouronce" (that features a dope piano sample), "Thorn" as well as "Again" (that is another one of the best produced tracks). Further, even though he speaks of a third person on "Privacy", the ideas still very much sound like those of Lo'. And the spoken word flow is finalized on the nicely reduced "Epithalamium", that while an untypical, if not even unlikely song, still happens to be one of the best on here, even though it might be borrowing too much from a prominent upright bass jazz sample, that sounds very Sebutone'ish. On "Opera-tion", Lo' then finally also drops some braggadocios verses, giving an almost needed lighthearted side to this project.

The album is of the new flashy diary style, but shouldn't be just dismissed because of that. It could be dismissed because of the slow and unimpressive songs like "Frontline", as well as the not too groundbreaking over all quality of this record. It's still good at what it does though: dropping reflective lyrics that only from time to time go for the easy rhyme, putting them over too musical to be called avant garde beats. So the album doesn't fail in the essentials department (and it even offers an extra hidden cut), while at the same time, it can't fully shrug off a 'been there, heard that' taste.