Audiopile Review: At a glance, 2024 might seem like a quiet year for the typically prolific Pink Siifu—that is, if you weren’t tapped into the 4 volumes of his Bandcamp exclusive series, Got Food at the Crib, that dropped throughout the year. Across volumes 1 and 2, Siifu offers exercises in the dusty, genre-defying lo-fi hip-hop that he has built his career on thus far. Southern hip-hop reminiscent of his work on Gumbo’!, illusory cloud rap, Ensley-esque neo-soul, garage experiments (peep the light-hearted Janet Jackson remix in vol. 1), and heady trap beats are seamlessly woven together, cloaked in his signature haze. The smoked out soul, wide-ranging palette, and fluid structures of these projects evoke frequent collaborator and shop favourite Liv.e, particularly in the dreamier moments of volume 2. The production from Tony Seltzer, Siifu’s B. Cool Aid collaborator Ahwlee, Lastnamedavid,  and Siifu himself, among others, keeps you guessing which sonic terrain we’ll slip into next, perhaps comparable to the concise yet bountiful works of fellow abstract hip-hop staple Earl Sweatshirt. While Got Food at the Crib doesn’t adhere to the conventions of a traditional album series, it stands more like a testament to Pink Siifu’s boundless creativity and ever-evolving artistry.

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GFATC Exploring hip-hop’s dustier grooves, sounding similar at times to his early solo work or the 2020 Fly Anakin collaboration Fly Siifu’s.

GFATC’s mode and presentation help distinguish it: It has the air of a daisy-chained DAT tape reel that somehow found its way into your speakers. Without separated tracks, the beginnings and endings of songs (producers include Siifu’s alias iiye, Tony Seltzer, XVII, MVW, West, and IMDEAD) are left to the listener to determine. On paper, it’s a suite; in practice, it becomes more like a sculpture, where multiple angles of engagement over time bring a more weighty understanding.