Adam McIlwee's 'Stress' Brings Indie And Rap Together
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Adam McIlwee's 'Stress' Brings Indie And Rap Together

They seamlessly blended the recognizable trap sample with smooth vocals, giving the song an indie feel.

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Adam McIlwee is back at it again with the release of his new song "Stress" featuring Camp Cope's Georgia Maq. After leaving Tigers Jaw in 2013 McIlwee was a co-creator of the rap collective GOTHBOICLIQUE and began working more on his solo project, Wicca Phase Springs Eternal. This is when he began to bend the genres of music to create something unique. In GOTHBOICLIQUE McIlwee was one of the ten rappers involved in making the band's music, that is labeled as "emo rap."

McIlwee has now signed to Run For Cover Records where the Australian indie band Camp Cope is also signed. To celebrate Run For Cover re-releasing his album "Secret Boy" he teamed up with Camp Cope's guitarist/vocalist Georgia Maq for his new song "Stress," which you can listen to here. Now let me tell you, at first I was hesitant to like this song because of the sample beat that runs behind the entire song, but once McIlwee and Maq began singing I was instantly in love. They have managed to seamlessly blend the recognizable trap sample with smooth vocals that give the song an indie feel. The same can be said for McIlwee's other releases in his solo project, which you can listen to here.

By blending these genres together McIlwee and his fellow members of the collective GOTHBOICLIQUE have been deemed as the "future of emo," but even though he was influenced by emo music McIlwee says that he never specifically attempted to create emo music. In fact, he "tried to avoid any trends that take cues from that genre." By leaving Tigers Jaw and becoming a part of the emo-rap community McIlwee is able to do what he believes will benefit music for the future. He is being creative in the ways that he pushes boundaries and morphs genres.

You can pre-order "Secret Boy" here or purchase it on October 19th. You can buy tickets for his tour here.

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