Iipatrick Paige - If I Fail Are We Still Cool? [VINYL]

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Long before Patrick Paige II knew how to rip bass, he knew he wanted to fly. \u201cSince I was little I was obsessed with aviation,\u201d he recalls. \u201cI wanted to be in the airforce until I got older and more conscious \u2014 no, I don\u2019t wanna drop bombs on people for no fucking reason. But flying was an obsession that started young.\u201d It\u2019s a fixation that permeates his forthcoming sophomore album If I Fail Are We Still Cool, a collection of tenacious affirmations stitched together with in-flight interludes and an unshakable sense of ascension.

Born and raised in Los Angeles, music became a part of Paige\u2019s life from the get-go, as he learned the upright bass in middle school while playing the drums at his church on the weekends. Through their mutual friend Robbie, he met a kindred spirit and collaborator in Syd Bennett shortly after graduating high school in 2007. Bennett asked him to play bass in her new band, later known as The Internet. The rest \u2014 four critically-lauded albums, multiple world tours, Grammy and BET Award nominations, and collaborations with the likes of Kaytranada, Tyler the Creator, Janelle Mon\xe1e \u2014 is history.

As the band grew, so did Paige as a solo artist. In May 2018, he put out his debut album Letters of Irrelevance. While on the road later that year with The Internet touring Hive Mind, Paige needed a way to further set his own intentions. Inspired by a chance meeting with lifelong idol James Shaffer (of Korn) at The Forum, Paige knew he had to step his
game up if . \u201cI wanted to sound more seasoned,\u201d he says. \u201cIf I\u2019m gonna rap, I\u2019m gonna really do this shit. I\u2019m not halfway doing anything anymore. Being modest and humble\u2026 what those words do is intentionally repress greatness.\u201d

What initially began as the makings of an EP quickly amassed into something more like a revelation once he wrote the hook-heavy \u201cSo They Say.\u201d \u201cI never trusted myself to write hooks, but once I wrote that, it was like, \u2018oh shit, I can do this. I\u2019m done pretending like I can\u2019t.\u2019\u201d Written on the road and recorded in Hollywood at Chalice Recording Studios
with the help of friends Chris Bosmith, Sean Matsukawa and Kameron Allen, the album provided Paige with a canvas to define himself. \u201cI wanna stand for something,\u201d he declares on \u201cWho Am I.\u201d \u201cI wanna do it for the kids who got kicked out of class, beating on tables with the pens, they had no drum pads.\u201d These moments of freeform introspection entwine with effortless grooves, such as on \u201cWhisper\u201d featuring Steve Lacy, Allen Love, and Durand
Bernar. Elsewhere on the album, he links with Syd, Westside McFly, Saba, Ohana Bam, and Forte Bowie.

Yet for all its surrounding community, the album remains an inherently individual journey, one that only Paige can take. If he\u2019s already introduced us to who he is as a bassist, and later as an artist, then If I Fail Are We Still Cool introduces us to Paige as a human, with all his vulnerabilities and insatiable ambition. Taken as a whole, it pays rhapsodic homage to who he\u2019s alw