Swanny Ivy - It’ll Be Over Soon (Side B) (Album)

Late last year, Swanny Ivy, who if you don’t know by now (what rock you been under if you haven’t), I strongly urge you to get familiar with pronto. Around September of last year, he blessed us with some of his most poignant work to date with the eerily yet ironically hopeful title “It’ll Be Over Soon.” It could be about the real world because of this wretched pandemic & wretched people solely after who is free in hopes to “handle” them or your own demons trying to handle you. The pain will all be over soon, maybe even after hearing the B Side here.

While Side A was more triumphantly poignant, Side B is hazily melancholy, blissful ignorance instead of just bliss. The best of both worlds, an angel on one shoulder, devil on the other, sometimes those inner demons are too powerful to subdue. You can succumb to them to ease whatever stresses may be festering on your mind, with J Allan, Duvin, CLEF & even Swanny himself offering the perfect blankets for Swanny to hover above like the guru he is. Be it the electro grooves of “Blow,” which sounds like a pure chemical imbalance. The trap musings of “Slut” & you better not call the horny police on his lust demons, him losing “Control” on the dizzying room spinner & then letting go with “No Hands,” his “Aura” is a presence that is forever felt.

Life may not ever stop “Hoein’” around. Still, eventually, it’ll all come to a “Red Light,” probably the most rejuvenatingly alleviating cut out of the 8 & it’s merely an interlude. Still, as powerfully dreamlike as anything Ivy has done, he’s a chameleon on both sides to this beautiful project. I advise you to listen to as a whole for one spiritual out of body experience as you inevitably tap into your inner celestial being. Let the air guide you whenever you feel like just giving up. This a project that’ll remind you just to keep going. Life is what you make it; it isn’t like Swanny hasn’t felt what all of us have felt at least once. Still, if we all will die no matter what one day, we may as well remind ourselves of that & not waste the limited time we have here; it’ll all be over before you know it.