Topia - Keep It ft. HakimXOXO (prod. Caleb Lodish)

Topia has been carving out a distinctive lane with some wildly creative variations on the current pop/emo/trap formulas. Just check out the opening 30 seconds of “Keep It,” morphing between a half dozen approaches and showing off the versatile pipes he’s been gifted. It’s pretty clear that he could hold down a song with nothing but some reverb, unlike a lot of the current crop of autotune warblers who couldn’t hit a note without a mountain of VSTs. But Topia is using all that technology as an extension of his vision, rather than a crutch. I feel strongly that this cat is going to have a big year between now and next summer.