- If S-Type was on the stock market, now is when you'd want to buy in. Two years after Bobby Perman's triumphant debut single, Billboard, he's toured with Baauer and lent his beats to many an MC. Now, the Glaswegian's second EP emerges with another club anthem already making the rounds. "Rosario" hits all the same sweet spots as "Billboard," but instead of channeling Southern hip-hop, it refashions trance's quivering euphoria. With a dynamic flute breakdown, careful drums that bang in halftime and a well-placed stutter on the chorus, it's the kind of three-dimensional rap anthem that doesn't need a rapper.
A bit more contained, "Franco" is based on an old-timey organ whose distinctive whirr sounds epic in Perman's hands. Booming timpani-like drums hint that he learned a thing or two from his time with Baauer—trap-style beats without the machismo. It's no wonder that "Lost Girls" was requested by Drake (though never used), because it sounds like a crack attempt at one of the Toronto rapper's dreary moods: grand but autumnal, the synths are reflective and slip in and out of drunkenness. The EP begins and ends with Rustie-assisted interludes (it's presumably him on the searing electric guitar parts), featuring rappers Yc The Cynic and Roc Marciano. Neither gives a particularly memorable performance, but that's not the point. They're stage-setting bookends for what the focus is really on here: Bobby Perman's intoxicating instrumentals.
Tracklist01. Outside feat. YC The Cynic & Rustie (Intro)
02. Rosario
03. Franco
04. Lost Girls
05. Inside feat. Roc Marciano & Rustie (Outro)