Handle With Care, this is the all too familiar cautionary label placed on sensitive packages. Before you know what a package contains, you already understand that it's delicate and should be handled as such. This is the notion behind multi-award-winning Zimbabwean artist and producer, VI The Law's latest album.
Handle With Care explores the idea that, like objects that carry cautionary labels, human beings too are vessels that contain emotions, experiences, and stories that are too often ignored or overlooked by society. Drawing from his own experience of navigating a difficult breakup, VI The Law uses this project to reflect on the complexities of love, healing, and the confusion that often accompanies personal growth.
The album marks a personal and artistic evolution for the renowned musician, delving into themes of post-breakup clarity, emotional vulnerability, and societal pressures.
"I've always felt that we, as people, are like boxes with warning signs. We carry so much within us, yet society rarely takes the time to truly listen or understand. This album was born from that realization and my own journey through a breakup. Handle with care is about understanding ourselves better, even through the mess and the hurt. It's an emotional rollercoaster, but it's also an opportunity for clarity." - VI The Law
The rapper wades into topics like his inability to change on the opener "stuck in my ways," before reflecting on things left unsaid that leave the relationship in free fall on "shrondinger's chat," and then communication issues on "broken telephone." While a strong shift in sound from his debut album, Handle With Care still contains the storytelling and lyricism VI The Law. A sense of melancholy underlies everything, although this is broken apart by songs such as "baddie."
Across the project's 9 tracks electronic beats that verge on alt rock are met with poignant lyricism that gives this album an extremely personal feeling. Written and produced by VI The Law himself, Handle With Care is a display of the artist's versatility. A step away from the mainstream yet well executed in multiple aspects.
In bringing together this creative vision, VI The Law had a helping hand from Don Three Letterz - who was the album's co-executive producer - and creative hub 3rd World Chronicles.
Handle With Care is available across all major streaming platforms.
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