Albums
So Wavy Luciano
2025
Genre: Hip-Hop/Rap
Release Date: 2025
By Jude Noel
Reviewed February 4, 2025
The New York City rapper pushes hedonism to the extreme, delivering paranoid self-awareness and off-kilter cadences over moody plugg production.
So Wavy Luciano, the latest mixtape by Bloody!, pushes hedonism to manic-depressive extremes. One moment, the New York City rapper sounds utterly unbothered, recalling stoned hookups and late-night cups of coffee over pillowy plugg beats; the next, he raps like he’s shaking you by the shoulders, so bored he’s beginning to panic. On “Need a Nerdy Bitch,” fantasizing about the bookish girl of his dreams sends Bloody! spiraling, stray bytes of cyborgian Auto-Tune flying off each bar like spittle as his rant grows more impassioned. “Man, I need me a quiet bitch,” he half-sings, half-pants to the tune of Jugg6k’s StoopidXool-esque synth pads, beginning to outpace the beat. “Man, I need some Xans. Man, I need a plan. Man, I need some love,” he continues, wrung out in the gears of a sinister desiring-machine. Though the phrase “I feel good” is something of a mantra throughout the tape, it’s repeated with a sense of superstitious habit. Bloody! knows pleasure is fleeting, and he’s hanging on for dear life.