Opening with a roaring and pounding booming beat alongside a declaration as immediately arresting as “I’M NOT COOL”, MUNGMUNG throws you into “Internet Friends” without warning. The alternative hip-hop artist from Sydney has a style that’s uniquely her own, and owns that difference with character and style that makes it all the more attractive. The beat is instantly gripping, a hard-hitting and thunderingly ominous smashing soundscape that sounds threatening and aggressive. MUNGMUNG’s pointed lyrics, directed towards our conception and attitudes towards internet culture and social media at large. But it’s in her dissonance, her anger and rage towards that system and the existence of horrible people online that makes this all the more engaging.
That chorus might be one of the most powerful and anthemic drops you’re bound to hear all year. It’s almost a larger clarion call for the dejected, for those sick of the nonsense you face online, and for those living in complete disconnect and dissonance towards the digital relationships.
Fiery, fresh, and furious, MUNGMUNG is a voice to be reckoned with in modern hip-hop.