A.M. Breakups Shares OGB EP Featuring SKECH185, DJ Addikt & Phoebe Ayn Rose (Reservoir Sound)
Marris Mielnick is a Brooklyn-bred, New Orleans-based producer, Polaroid photographer, and alternative woodworking and metal artist, who moonlights as A.M. Breakups. An affiliate of both Lt Headtrip's we are the karma kids and Uncommon Nasa's Uncommon Records, Mielnick is the founder of his own Brooklyn-based Hip-Hop/Rap collective, Reservoir Sound. A.M. Breakups is part of groups 11:00A.M. We Are Not for Them, and CULT FAVORITE with emcees Eleven, Warren Britt, and E L U C I D, respectively. Breakups has previosuly released collaborations with the like sof billy woods, Despot, Teddy Faley, Uncommon Nasa, Vordul Mega (Cannibal Ox,) Junclassic, Shortrock, k-the-i??? and more.
Following a brief two-year self-imposed sabbatical period, paired with a recent move from Brooklyn to New Orleans, A.M. Breakups has returned with a new musical effort. OGB is a concise four-track EP billed as the "first collection of work that finds Breakups outside of his lifetime home of New York, relocated to the legendary wards and trainyards of New Orleans." Each of the four songs encapsulates the corresponding season in which it was created, spanning the last year in A.M. Breakups' life amidst his newfound home and under newly-adopted social distancing regulations throughout daily life, which we've all become increasingly used to over the past year or so.
Further straying away from his oft-used routines, as Breakups was unable to make use of his usual array of plug-ins (i.e. compressors, reverb, etc.) and was ultimately forced to experiment with varying methods to help polish up his final mixes. Said processes leave OGB "a gentler listen than the bulk of his work, while concurrently exposing this collection as some of his rawest, most emotional pieces to date." Across four consise tracks, A.M. Breakups still manages to employ his long-standing tradition of collaboration: Phoebe Ayn Rose contributes writing and production to the opening self-titled track, DJ Addikt lends his esteemed turntablism to "Not A Second Wasted," and Breakups teams up with Chicago emcee and frequent collaborator SKECH185 for "Maybe."
This leaves one single track, EP closer, "Empty Room," as its aptly-named lone producer-only affair "perhaps rolling one last cigarette by the golden light of dawn." Overall, the mood of OGB EP evokes the lonliness we've all admittedly felt within the past year and some change. OGB is framed as a collection of A.M. Breakups' impressions throughout the Lockdown of 2020, sonically nestled in solitude, hopeful and patient; we can only assume, following said theme of isolation, OGB EP's aforementioned features with Pheobe Ayn Rose, DJ Addikt & SKECH185 were recorded remotely in a socially distant manner. A.M. Breakups' OGB EP is now avialble for purchase on Bandcamp, along with your go-to streaming service of choice, via Reservoir Sound.