Leaf is a Dallas-based collaboration lead by producer Steve Wick. The debut album is the first release from Suspicious Records (a sub-label of Hive Records) which promises and delivers anxious urban prophesy for your listening pleasure.
Leaf's composer Steve Wick has been producing music for around 8 years. Previous and current side-projects include Nev.r.land, Biogliphic, & Blunt Force Crew.
The debut album Made into Itself is a mood-sculpting masterpiece combining talent from many individuals, as well as many flavors of styles throughout... it will keep you guessing and entertained from beginning to end.
Made Into Itself is instrumental hip-hop with a grey ribbed turtleneck and a pair of dark-rimmed Brooks Brothers glasses. It's erudite and discerning, a bit standoffish but delightfully clever when you sit down and chat over a couple of import ales. A bookish vibe pervades every aspect of Leaf's music, from the way that their boom-bap drum loops crackle like the binding of a first edition Hardy doorstopper to the crinkled-brow poetry that spills over textured wave fields and loping violin.
Made Into Itself is a dirty, city night masterpiece - recalling the best moments of Massive Attack's seminal Mezzanine album, Tricky's darker compositions, and the decks-on- Ritalin compositional genius of artists like DJ Signify and DJ Shadow, this album is a must have for fans of the genre. Pushing well outside the confines of Trip Hop and experimental Hip-Hop, Leaf finds new veins coursing with beats and samples as obscure and disjointed as chinese mandolin and 70's irish folk and ties them together into a breathing, vibrant, gritty epic. Highly recommended listening for driving, fucking, or taking to a cold street at dawn.