Evil Ebenezer produced, shot and co-directed "False Creek Flats" himself, which is a lot of control for a two-minute-twenty record and it shows in how tightly everything fits. The Vancouver rapper cut the vocal at The Dark Blue House with Nato handling mix and master, and the result sounds like a room rather than a session: close, unhurried, with the low end sitting just behind the voice instead of underneath it. The title shares its name with a Vancouver district, and whether that's geography or metaphor, the record reads as place-bound the kind of writing that assumes you know which bridge and which block. Ebenezer delivers in a register between rap and singing, a habit that's been his signature for years and a Leo Award-winning video career's worth of practice. He doesn't raise his voice much. The intensity comes from how little the arrangement gives you to hold onto: a loop, a pulse, and a narrator who sounds like he's reporting rather than performing. Worth noting for listeners who default to US coasts: this is Canadian West Coast rap with its own lineage, and Ebenezer has been working that ground long enough that he no longer has to announce it. Jordon Chatten co-directs and edits, and the camera stays where the vocal is no gloss, no second location, no cast. Short record, clear authorship. If you've been sleeping on the Vancouver underground, this is a cheap way to wake up.
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