Teller Bank$ turns Mathematics into Iowa memory, vapor and number-coded grief

Teller Bank$’ Mathematics, officially carrying the wonderfully exhausting title 3x6x =666, 3x1x=111 3x7x =777,3x5x=555 3x9x =999,3x3x=333, gets reviewed on 29 June, and it sounds like one of those rap records where the title is not a gimmick so much as a warning about density. Pitchfork describes the Des Moines rapper burrowing into memories and cautionary tales over vaporous deconstructed jazz production, with an ever-shifting flow that seems to sink into grief rather than simply narrate it. The article notes that halfway through the album, Teller Bank$ relives the deaths of two friends within a few bars, which suggests a project where memory does not arrive politely. It ambushes. Mathematics sounds like underground rap as haunted arithmetic: numbers, losses, loops and half-lit stories counting themselves backward.

Source: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/teller-banks-mathematics/