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“Real Slim Shady, don’t stand up / I see two girls but just one cup”. A song for 21 year olds, maybe, born on the edge of the 21st century: 19.99 is an homage to the year 1999, part throwback hip hop, with beats and warbling guitars that sound like your modem warming up. The cup runneth over: here's the hyper-lyricism of a Pfife Dawg, a Dylan, a poetics of irony and tenderness veering between Columbine and childhood innocence, wrapped in a gorgeously layered synth sleeve, a pop record of analogue memories made for today, when we all seem out of luck, when history is spinning away, and gyre is wide af.
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